Mountain Quotes · Page 21

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds…

— Alan Watts

If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me…

— Isaac Asimov

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

— Richard R. Nelson

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father…

— Maud Lindsay

You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses,…

— Yvon Chouinard

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

— David Allan Coe

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it…

— Thomas Carlyle

I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.

— Marjorie Liu

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

— Helen Keller

At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the…

— Ellen Hopkins

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

— Tara Westover

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of…

— Francine Rivers

Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.

— Cliff Asness

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

— Lu Xun

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot…

— Colin Wilson

I have been drinking Mountain Dew since law school, it will get you revved up like an engine.

— Phaedra Parks

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

— Nora Roberts

All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken…

— Henry Van Dyke

But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across…

— Peter Kropotkin

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

— Richard Paul Evans

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light,…

— T. S. Eliot

Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The instability and disorderliness we have in Nigeria today and Africa at large is totally due to the absence of this light.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Cape Town is beautiful. It's an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.

— Michael O'Keefe