Top 38 Quotes About Mountain Tops
#1. Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are ...
John Denver
#2. Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
#3. Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
Austin O'Malley
#4. Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.
Murray Walker
#5. Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
Horace
#6. The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.
Frederick Soddy
#7. Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert Macfarlane
#8. And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.
Jack Kerouac
#9. It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master break down doors to enter His own home? Without earthquake, or thunderclap: the flame has lit up the whole world from within.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#10. Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
Phillips Brooks
#11. They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.
Kelly Macdonald
#12. Sometimes you've got to start at the lowest valleys to climb to the highest mountain tops.
Timothy Pina
#13. Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't.
Seth Shostak
#15. I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#16. This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.
John L. Lewis
#17. Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.
Mark Cuban
#19. In My Life, I've Been Through Some Pretty Low Valleys & Some Beautiful Mountain Tops. Yet ... Through all my happy & sad days,If I learned One Thing In My Life It's That What An A Extremely Awesome God I Serve!
Timothy Pina
#20. We're not show-business people. We have a life.
Patti LuPone
#21. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
John Muir
#22. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
Edgar Allan Poe
#23. Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.
Tom Turner
#24. There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty.
Herman Melville
#25. Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
Tony Hillerman
#26. Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#27. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.
Dr. Dre
#28. Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Mingled in harmony on Nature's face,
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth,
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.
William C. Bryant
#29. America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on everything all of the time, but we select our leaders together. And when we don't want them anymore, we get rid of them.
Keith Ellison
#31. They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.
Fernando Lachica
#32. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#33. Nor was I following how someone who seemed so sweet and genteel at Bible study was acting like someone who'd contracted mad cow disease. Or maybe politics made people act slightly demon-possessed.
Christy Barritt
#34. Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
Nils Kjaer
#35. We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by the arts of peace nor yet by those of war, but by the cooperation of both
Gustave De Molinari
#36. I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.
Shane Koyczan
#37. Yes, fear was the kind of prison where you made yourself the inmate and the jailer.
A.J. Sand
#38. 'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
