Rocky Mountain Quotes:

I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.

- Margot Kidder

topic: Beautiful, Running, Dog, Rocky Mountain, Nice Friend

My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.

- Robert Adams

topic: New York, Mountain, Development, Rocky Mountain

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1807). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.123

topic: Peace, Mountain, Firm, Rocky Mountain

And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

topic: Air, Blue, Mountain, Rocky Mountain, Snowy

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Courage, Exercise, Mountain, Novas, Nova Scotia

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

- Meriwether Lewis

source: Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.249, tredition

topic: Country, Wind, Two, Rocky Mountain

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

- Jules Verne

source: Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the Moon”, p.135, Jules Verne

topic: Clouds, Sky, Mountain, Earth And Sky, Fatality

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

- Edward Hoagland

topic: Summer, Believe, Doors, Back Doors, Rocky Mountain

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Healing, Wind, Mountain, Rocky Mountain

In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.

- Dave Barry

topic: Erosion, Mountain, Facts, Grand Canyon, Canyons

Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.

- William C. Bryant

source: William Cullen Bryant, “Monument Mountain”

topic: Feet, Lovely, Mountain, Rocky Mountain

Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.

- Harold Rosenberg

topic: Art, Hymns, America, Rocky Mountain

We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Home, Men, Land, Pacific, Public Domain

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing

topic: Slaughterhouse Five, Mountain, Doe, Rocky Mountain, Slaughter House 5

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

- Mother Jones

topic: Fighting, Men, Mountain, Rocky Mountain

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

topic: Moon, Mountain, World, Mississippi River, Rocky Mountain