Mountain Quotes · Page 23

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

— Joseph Addison

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

— David R. Brower

“Noah lands the boat on a mountain, because screw you physics,”

— Casper Rigsby

On the other side of every mountain was another mountain.

— George Russell

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

— Greg Child

“There is a commanded blessing on anyone that values, esteems and stands for justice in society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.”

— Mel Robbins

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all…

— Anonymous

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one…

— Sergey Brin

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might…

— Robert Byron

In many people's minds, Everest has lost her crown. She has become a mountain synonymous with death, exploitation and pollution.

— Ben Fogle

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where…

— Paulo Coelho

“Life as a mountain – so rugged and hard to climb definitely, But once you get to the top the view is…

— Munindra (Munnan) Misra

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

— Jon Krakauer

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont…

— Robert Littell

To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice…

— Eric Hoffer

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and…

— Louis J. Mordell

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of…

— Georges Cuvier

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way…

— Tim O'Brien

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had…

— Cheryl Strayed

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and…

— Freya Stark

Qing Cheng Mountain was a direct influence on the mysterious final shot of 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Eradicating ignorance through the establishment of information centers.”

— Sunday Adelaja

So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

— Reinhold Messner

“There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.”

— Sunday Adelaja

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

— George C. Wallace

“It is those that are insulted by injustice that will refuse to be silenced.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Duane Chapman

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.

— Rumi

“To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The view from the mountaintop is not what makes you a mountain-climber; it is the climb itself.”

— Greg Kuhn

Sometimes life will test you but remember this: When you walk up a mountain, your legs get stronger.

— Anonymous

You can either be a quitter, a camper or a climber. I don't want to quit, and I certainly don't want to…

— Monty Williams

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

— John Berger

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

— RM