Mountain Quotes - Page 30

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore. It was like being roped together on a mountain.

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team. (on Manchester United)

Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

You gotta be willing to face, every fear! Climb, every mountain! Defy, every odd!

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.

If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can't, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

When you get some success, you want more. When you get one mountain climbed, you want to climb the next one.

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.

Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?