Top 24 Alpine Quotes
#1. I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
Lance Armstrong
#2. I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.
Wallace Shawn
#3. Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
Robert Genn
#4. My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'
Douglas Coupland
#6. If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.
T. Boone Pickens
#7. The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
Peter Medawar
#8. Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed
secure from dread?
Thomas Hood
#9. Tockytock, tockytock
clumped our Alpine, Edwardian cuckoo clock,
slung with strangled, wooden game.
Robert Lowell
#11. When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper ... and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
L.M. Montgomery
#12. Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
#13. Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.
Alexander MacLaren
#14. Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.
Michael Kennedy
#15. Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.
Eugene Ormandy
#16. A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches
Jeff Lindsay
#17. In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.
Chris Carter
#19. Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind ...
Thomas Buchanan Read
#20. If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.
Bernie Mac
#21. On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.
Matthew Arnold
#22. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.
John Milton
#23. Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#24. I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.
Eric Maskin
