Alps Quotes:

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Alps, Hills, Arise

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Yodeling, Naysayers, Alps

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

- Johanna Spyri

source: Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature”, p.73, e-artnow

topic: Grandfather, Earth, Alps

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Climbing, People, Alps

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

- Patricia Hewitt

topic: Party, Alps, Centre

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

- John Milton

source: 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

topic: Lakes, Rocks, Alps, Bogs, Paradise Lost Book 2

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

- Gore Vidal

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Venice, Alps, My Family

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

- Groucho Marx

topic: Simple, Shoes, Alps, Old Shoes

There shall be no Alps.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Alps

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

- Elton John

source: "Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th", news.bbc.co.uk. March 23, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Flying, Alps

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

topic: Couple, Alps, Arguing, Young Couples

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

- Emily Greene Balch

topic: Real, Sunshine, Night, Alps

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Time, Years, Climbing, Alps, Having Strength

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Life, Men, Worry, Alps, Cursing

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

- Mark Twain

topic: Zero, Hard Work, Men, Alps, Glaciers

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

topic: Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks, Alps, Steep

For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Snowboarding, Energy, Alps, Himalayas

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

- Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne

topic: Rocks, Ideas, Water, Alps

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

- Chris Frantz

source: "Rockers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth Talk Marriage". Interview with John Clarke, www.rollingstone.com. July 4, 2013.

topic: Winter, Germany, Want, Alps

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...

- Alexander Pope

topic: Science, Trying, Firsts, Alps

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

- John Ruskin

topic: White, Snow, Progress, Alps, Human Power

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Sunset, Sea, Fire, Alps, Beautiful Sunset

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

source: Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.28

topic: Lying, Snow, Valleys, Alps

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

- Fiorello H. La Guardia

topic: Rivers, San Francisco, Hudson River, Alps, Bay Area

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Simple, Scotland, Capes, Alps, Simple Beauty

The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than the Libs or anyone else in Australian's history, but there was substance to it.

- Warren Mundine

topic: Party, Book, People, Alps, Australian

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: "Summer Moonshine". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1938.

topic: America, Blonde, Citizens, Alps

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

- Benito Mussolini

source: "Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews". Book by the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1943.

topic: Rome, Doctrine, Looks, Alps, Augustus

Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted. I've smelled crabs boiling on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco on my way to the Golden Gate Bridge, watched the sun rise over Diamond Head in Hawaii, and seen deer grazing on the Alps in St. Moritz, Switzerland. I clearly remember turning to my husband, Jack, in one of these places and saying, 'People don't know what they're missing.'

- Grete Waitz

source: "On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People".

topic: Inspirational, Running, Morning, Alps, Sun Rise

If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

- Vandana Shiva

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Animal, America, What If, Alps, Dairy Cows

I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

- Mavis Gallant

source: Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books

topic: Children, Believe, Writing, Alps, Dry Land

Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.

- Chiranjeevi

topic: People, Switzerland, Shooting, Greenery, Alps

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

- Winston Churchill

source: Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

topic: Summer, War, Ocean, Airy, Alps

A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!

- George Barrell Cheever

topic: Atheist, Liars, Writing, Alps, Inscriptions

We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.

- Thomas D'Arcy McGee

topic: Moving, Patriotic, People, Alps, Provinces

It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote 'Mr. Blue Sky' and 13 other songs in the next two weeks.

- Jeff Lynne

topic: Beautiful, Song, Dark, Alps, Misty

There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

- Frank Smythe

topic: Men, Unseen, Ordinary, Ordinary Things, Alps

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book thief herself - that as she knelt next to Hans Hubermann, she watched him stand and play the accordion. He stood and strapped it on in the alps of broken houses and played the accordion with kindness silver eyes and even a cigarette slouched on his lips. The bellows breathed and the tall man played for Liesel Meminger one last time as the sky was slowly taken away from her.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Kindness, Book, Taken, Alps, Liesel

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Photography, Children, Passion, Alps, Kodak

I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.

- Jonathan Trigell

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Summer, Jobs, Winter, Alps

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

- Catherine Malandrino

topic: Fun, Barbie, Blonde, Alps

We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.

- Nick Offerman

source: "Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview". Squid Ink interview, www.laweekly.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Order, Shoes, Choices, Alps

History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

- Robert Aris Willmott

source: Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

topic: Drama, Moving, Epic, Alps, Winding Down

I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.

- Luke Goss

topic: Crazy, Paris, Mountain, Alps, Freeways

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

- Edward Young

topic: Fall, Men, Egypt, Alps

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

- James Thurber

source: James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

topic: Eye, Elephants, Theatre, Alps, Snowstorms

I was pretty blown away by how vast and aggressive the terrain is in the Japanese Alps. You're looking up at peaks, and it's like Alaska seeing all kinds of amazing stuff that looks ridable, but it's 70 percent death defying; only a small percentage really goes.

- Travis Rice

source: Source: www.outdoorjapan.com

topic: Alaska, Looks, Stuff, Alps, Defying

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

- Orson Welles

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Alps, Italian Renaissance