Top 100 Mountain Quotes
#1. She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.
Bobby Petrino
#2. There is a Precious Mountain
Even the Seven Treasures cannot compare
A cold moon rises through the pines
Layer upon layer of bright clouds
How many towering peaks?
How many wandering miles?
The valley streams run clear
Happiness forever!
Hanshan
#3. Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
Jacquie Phelan
#5. My dreams have been filled with shadows and wings - the booming of wings soaring between mountain passes.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. Having reached the summit of his vengeance by the slow and tortuous route that he had followed, he had looked over the far side of the mountain and into the abyss of doubt.
Alexandre Dumas
#8. There are, it is often said by the more ecumenical prophets, many paths up the mountain. So long as it helps a person navigate the world and seek out what is good, a path, by definition, has value.
Robert Moor
#9. Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
Gautama Buddha
#10. Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Up and down, up and down, a ladder of choices leading to the next choice, and the next, until suddenly you've run out of choices, and ladder, and you find time as rare and thin as air on a mountain. Then it's oops, sorry, turn's over.
Lauren Oliver
#12. For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.
Benton MacKaye
#13. A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
Carl Andre
#14. I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.
Rex Stout
#15. A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.
Thomas Davis
#16. After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.
Timothy Ferriss
#17. The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
Bryant McGill
#18. We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
Rick Santelli
#19. No mountain of doom,
Just foothills of Ferninand.
Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.
Megan Frazer Blakemore
#20. Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no idea where the top of the mountain was in the first place.
Leon Uris
#21. Later, following the funeral, he took all the family's horses, including his own, up into one of the mountain ravines and shot them.
David McCullough
#22. One has got to cope with the life, said the mountain man tying shoe with an earthworm
Students
#23. The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#24. Bacon. Crispy. Salty. I could just eat a mountain of bacon for breakfast; it's so delicious.
Willie Geist
#25. Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.
William Shakespeare
#26. Don't allow unfinished books to pile up in a mountain of guilt. Show patience with a book, but cut the ties when necessary and move on.
Tony Reinke
#27. I was born an original sinner
I was born from original sin
and if I had a dollar bill
for all the things I've done,
there'd be a mountain of money piled up to my ( ... )
Annie Lennox
#28. It was the Arkenstone, the Heart of the Mountain. So Bilbo guessed from Thorin's description; but indeed there could not be two such gems, even in so marvellous a hoard, even in all the world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.
Sepp Blatter
#30. There's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#31. School life is like being on a monkey mountain ... monkeys in the same gang constantly fight and get back together again ... and a hierarchy gets established.
Shouko Akira
#32. I could run farther than a hare! I could fight the fiercest fox that ever lived ... I could climb the highest mountain faster than an eagle could fly.
Erin Hunter
#33. Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
John Ruskin
#34. In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
Timothy Noah
#35. Mount Everest is about as tall as a mountain on Earth can grow before the lower rock layers succumb to their own plasticity under the mountain's weight.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#36. There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.
Graham Hancock
#37. One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Barbara Walters
#38. I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.
Mary Oliver
#39. [I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost in the mountain, doesn't it? And dies in the night, in the cold.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.
Mark Udall
#42. You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of the mountain. What's wrong?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know.
On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
Philippe Petit
#44. I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.
Charles Wesley
#45. You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.
Paulo Coelho
#46. We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.
John Henry Hopkins Jr.
#47. Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.
George Minot
#48. If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from
Michael O'Donoghue
#49. Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
Martin Luther
#50. I can't see giving up real books," she said. "And I love that I can give away my books after I've read them. Think of the first edition of The Magic Mountain I'm giving Nico. It was printed along with the first copy that went to Mann himself. It's got a history.
Will Schwalbe
#51. A little mountain will kill you just as dead as a big one if you fly into it.
Stephen Coonts
#52. I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
Aarti Sequeira
#53. A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
Dolly Parton
#54. We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.
Wole Soyinka
#55. I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
Linda McCartney
#56. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#57. I saw God! Do you doubt it?
Do you dare to doubt it?
I saw the Almighty Man! His hand
Was resting on a mountain!
James Kenneth Stephen
#58. That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.
Yann Martel
#60. Not yet," he wailed, as raw as the earth. "But you lay as though already dead, and I cannot go on without you. Do not leave me; do not die!" And I felt a grief from him to melt the mountain ice. Grief to drown in. Grief to both rend my heart and mend it at once.
Tosca Lee
#61. If you did leave,' he said. 'If you did simply walk out the doors and stroll down the mountain, leaving behind no word of where you were going or why, I would come looking for you. I would never stop looking for you. I would find you, too.
Sharon Shinn
#62. This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.
Stephen King
#63. The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon
#64. The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.
David Fricke
#65. It wasn't permanent like the limestone cross that flagged the mountain peak in the horizon, so he made sure to write it down. After making the sign of the cross, a deep hunger pulled his weight to the bottom of La Loma.
Richard Yanez
#67. Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen.
Ed Viesturs
#68. Feel yourself climbing the mountain.
A.D. Posey
#69. Spring-water in the green creek is clear Moonlight on Cold Mountain is white Silent knowledge - the spirit is enlightened of itself Contemplate the void: this world exceeds stillness.
Gary Snyder
#70. We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.
Todd Skinner
#71. This ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations ...
Christopher McDougall
#72. No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel ... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.
Matt Smith
#74. The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.
Peter J. Carroll
#75. Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.
Jay Leno
#76. It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Your eyes flash like Fourth-of-July sparklers, headlights on a mountain road, sparks in a short-circuited toaster.
Dennis Vickers
#78. If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain has to cancel all his plans and get on a plane.
Sophie Kinsella
#80. Every mountain needs someone to climb it,
Every ocean needs someone to dive in,
Every dream needs someone to wish it,
Every adventure needs someone to live it
India.Arie
#81. For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.
Amy Pascal
#82. Spring water is pure in an emerald stream
moonlight is white on Cold Mountain
silence thoughts and the spirit becomes clear
focus on emptiness and the world grows still
Han-shan
#83. Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.
Anatoli Boukreev
#84. Out leapt the King under the Mountain, and his companions followed him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#85. I like my writing career and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#86. A soft and gentle growth
Under a blue sky
Over a high mountain
Extended over a vast land
When the sun comes up
Start growing
Rixa White
#87. A thing that was difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. They all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working, with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.
George Orwell
#88. Everest is a big, pretentious name for a new-born. But would Dympna have named her only son Everest if she had known that he would be a fat albino boy? The comparisons with the snow-covered mountain peak are startling, to be fair.
Jonathan Dunne
#89. I may be small but my heart is as tall as any mountain.
Sally Ricketts
#90. Based upon my early experience at Snow Mountain, I had not viewed it as necessarily advantageous to broadcast the fact that I had a serious ladyfriend elsewhere.
Lee DeBourg
#91. I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till he is already drowning.
Diego Rivera
#92. Do you think Johnny Depp should have drive his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death? Why or why not?
B.J. Novak
#93. It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.
Tenzing Norgay
#94. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.
Bill Bryson
#95. As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
Gautama Buddha
#96. She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!
Andrea Zuvich
#97. It was like that moment when the roller coaster has reached the top of its first mountain, hesitates a moment . . . tilts . . . plunges . . . and you fall with a sudden blast of hot summer air in your face and a pressure against your chest and your stomach floating somewhere behind you. In
Stephen King
#98. And old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.
Richard Louv
#99. So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention
Nicki Minaj
#100. Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.
Franklyn Ajaye
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