Alps Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

• New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope
• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things… — Grete Waitz
• Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’ — Elton John
• I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for… — Alexander Graham Bell
• I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.… — Mavis Gallant
• Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas; Stephen-Malkmus-imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers,… — Stephen Malkmus
• Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those… — Benito Mussolini
• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally. — Patricia Hewitt
• Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they… — Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
• Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such… — Edward Burnett Tylor
• There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people… — Mark Twain
• If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
• We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace;… — Winston Churchill
• Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in… — Emily Greene Balch
• Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth… — Chiranjeevi
• I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was… — Catherine Malandrino
• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one… — Fiorello H. La Guardia
• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. — Alexander Pope
• Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. — E. W. Howe

Who Wrote These Alps Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 32 Alps Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Alps Quotes by Alexander Pope
• 2 Alps Quotes by Mark Twain
• 1 Alps Quote by Brandon Mccaw
• 1 Alps Quote by Patricia Hewitt
• 1 Alps Quote by Johanna Spyri
• 1 Alps Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• 1 Alps Quote by Grete Waitz
• 1 Alps Quote by Elton John
• 1 Alps Quote by Alexander Graham Bell
• 1 Alps Quote by Mavis Gallant
• 1 Alps Quote by Stephen Malkmus
• 1 Alps Quote by Benito Mussolini
• 1 Alps Quote by Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne
• 1 Alps Quote by Edward Burnett Tylor
• 1 Alps Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger
• 1 Alps Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Alps Quote by Emily Greene Balch
• 1 Alps Quote by Chiranjeevi
• 1 Alps Quote by Catherine Malandrino
• 1 Alps Quote by Fiorello H. La Guardia
• 1 Alps Quote by E. W. Howe
• 1 Alps Quote by P.G. Wodehouse
• 1 Alps Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 Alps Quote by Libba Bray
• 1 Alps Quote by Markus Zusak