Mountain Quotes - Page 25

Just let your love flow like a mountain stream And let your love grow.

I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

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.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and color, and the mountains are the kind I would create if mountains were ever put on my agenda.

I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.

Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a sudden, mountains of strength and can produce pictures with spontaneous start and finish.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome.

Fall mountains, just don't fall on me.

Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the more energy I gave the trail - the more it gave me in return.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.