Jack and Hilda went up the hill to fetch a mountain of…

Jack and Jill Went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down, And broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling…

— Mother Goose

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

— John Keegan

You are the mountain and the valley.

— Hildegard of Bingen

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

— Tara Westover

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of…

— Bruce Barcott

Sometimes you climb the mountain, and you fall and fail. Maybe there is a different path that will take you up. Sometimes a different…

— Caterina Fake

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the…

— Bayard Taylor

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.

— Anonymous

“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”

— Stephen King

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the…

— Jean Ziegler

We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River…

— Roy Barnes

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself"…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

— Bayard Taylor

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get…

— Jay Asher