Hills And Mountains Quotes:

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Dream, Peace, One Day, Kings Speech, Exalted

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

- Black Elk

topic: Clouds, White, Mountain, Hills And Mountains, Snowy

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

- David Trimble

topic: Night, Mountain, Attention, Hills And Mountains

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

topic: Pain, Heart, Journey, Hills And Mountains

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

- Christopher Marlowe

source: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

topic: Love, Life, Yield, Mountain Ranges, Mountains And Valleys

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

- Hilda Doolittle

topic: Fate, Men, Mountain, Predestined, Hills And Mountains

I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Running, Dog, Home, Circuit Training, Hills And Mountains

I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Inspirational, Struggle, Mountain, Flew Up, Hills And Mountains