Mountain Quotes - Page 22

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.

Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

You can't climb a smooth mountain

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.