King Of The Mountain Quotes

#1. There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

Sissy Spacek

#2. Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

Max Lucado

#3. I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

Waylon Jennings

#4. Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain.

Joe Greene

#5. In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind
but he must get there first.

John Steinbeck

#6. On a high mountain I stood,
And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.
O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men,
Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Out leapt the King under the Mountain, and his companions followed him.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can!

Barack Obama

#10. ...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt

Stephen King

#11. Red isn't your color, Bozo." Tina had said the first time Eleanor suited up. The other girls all laughed, even the black girls who hated Tina. Laughing at Eleanor was Dr. King's mountain.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Without love I was one who had lost the way; of a sudden love entered. I was a mountain; I became a straw for the horse of the king.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#14. Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Here is a story of a young prince who suddenly sees that the ambitious world is a big game of king
of the mountain, a boy scrambling up a pile of sand to call out, "I am king"; then another
throws him off to make his momentary claim, then another and so on.

Rumi

#16. I wonder what love feels like on the inside because externally it turns you into the King of Tit Mountain.

David Mitchell

#17. The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.

Vincent Scully

#18. Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. Thorin, of course, was really the grandson of the King under the Mountain, and there is no knowing what a dwarf will not dare and do for revenge or the recovery of his own.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. Richmond's newspaper questioned how a senior general could not even get two of his own generals to cooperate with him. They nicknamed him "Granny" Lee or "The King Of Spades," because he insisted that his men dig trenches on Sewell Mountain.

Clint Johnson

#21. She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King

John Kennedy Toole

#22. Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Don King

#23. Drinking people are loud people. This is lost
on children, who make monkey bars of noise,
climbing through and over its steel pipes
until they king the metal smell of mountain.

Ken Craft