Quotes and Sayings About Mountain
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When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.
-- Adam Carolla -
You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.
-- Adam Young -
Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.
-- African Spir -
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
-- Al McGuire -
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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
-- Al NeuharthSource : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet
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Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
-- Alain Gerbault -
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
-- Alain Robert -
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
-- Alan Alda -
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Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we love. Service is being available to love. Life is the combustion of love. That we love ourselves here, that is the true magnificence in the mountains of being.
-- Alex GreySource : "The Vast Expanse" by Alex Grey, August 22, 1994.
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Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.
-- Alex Grey -
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You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.
-- Alex Zanardi -
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too
-- Alexander CockburnSource : "Press Clips". The Village Voice, January 21, 1980.
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I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains
-- Alexei Yagudin -
I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.
-- Alfonsina Storni -
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Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.
-- Alfred William Howitt -
I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!
-- Allen Steck -
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
-- Amy Tan -
To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
-- Anagarika GovindaSource : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1991). “Insights of a Himalayan pilgrim”, Dharma Pub
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Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.
-- Anatoli BoukreevSource : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.300, St. Martin's Griffin
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Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.
-- Anatoli BoukreevSource : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.301, St. Martin's Griffin
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I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
-- Andrew Garfield -
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It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed or altogether forgotten. Like time, hope can be so senseless. It can carry us up mountains or lie us in the quicksand. But like time, hope is unstoppable, inevitable, and blind. Sometimes we travel fast, hurdling towards the unknown, sometimes the unknown comes hurdling towards us while we watch time standing still.
-- Andrew McMahon -
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.
-- Andy Andrews -
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
-- Andy Serkis -
Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean
-- Angeles Arrien -
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I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.
-- Anna Kavan