Quotes About The Old Man Of The Mountain

#1. Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Peter Shaffer

#2. It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the Creator gave them to us as teachers. Now that I am old I look once more toward them for lessons, instead of trying to understand the ways of men.

Kent Nerburn

#3. I hate birthdays.

Zane Grey

#4. 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

#5. Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

Hanshan

#6. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney Company

#7. Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

Carmelo Anthony

#8. I wish you all had one neck that I had my hands on it.

Carl Panzram

#9. The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

Ted Demme

#10. Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.

Ann Bancroft

#11. Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Woody Guthrie

#12. [on John Cowper Powys] ... there is an indistinct photograph of the great man himself, gazing into the misty cleft of a mountain range, wearing what could be an old rug, or an old cardigan. He looks like a cross between an aged werewolf and a puzzled child.

Margaret Drabble

#13. All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Henry Clay

#14. True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#15. And without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breathe for the rest of my life

Melina Marchetta

#16. And if I really wanted to understand the Raramuri, I should have been there when 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.

Christopher McDougall

#17. Yet, if the world were bettered by
My death or story left untold,
I would condemn myself to die
For misdemeanours manifold:
I bring no harm to young or old
Alive or dead, in either case:
A man so needy never rolled
A mountain from its resting place.

Francois Villon

#18. In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

Frank Smythe

#19. Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

Ryoji Noyori