Quotes About North Carolina Mountains

#1. Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.

Dennis Vickers

#2. Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

Maaza Mengiste

#3. I want to do for every aspect of the human world a little bit of what Charles Darwin did for biology, and get you to see past the illusion of design, to see the emergent, unplanned, inexorable and beautiful process of change that lies underneath.

Matt Ridley

#4. Mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.

Grant Hill

#6. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Karl Lagerfeld

#7. A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#8. My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

Kary Mullis

#9. If it makes you feel better, I promise to forget.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#11. In April, he spent ten days off the grid training with Carmichael and Bob Roll, Carmichael's affable thirty-eight-year-old former 7-Eleven teammate, in the college town of Boone, North Carolina, in the Appalachian Mountains.

Reed Albergotti

#12. Often tales of valiant deeds lighten the heart," said Brandegan. "They give hope, for they remind us that not all forces in the world work wickedness.

Julius Bailey

#13. She said to me, "I don't know what life is anymore, it seems mean to me. I always wanted to be a mermaid but I never saw the sea.

Renee Thebeau

#14. I think we can all agree. SHINEY.

Rachel Caine

#15. A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

John Oates

#16. As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

Tim Pratt

#17. I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

Bellamy Young