I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there! — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will… — Alfred Wainwright Copy Share Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your… — Yunho Copy Share Image
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Had I known the risks associated with oxygen administration, I would have refused to work atop the biologically hazardous Mauna Kea summit.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose:… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
