Mount Quotes
272 quotes by 216 authors
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Mount and begone. The world awaits you.
— Mervyn Peake
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But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or…
— Claudia Gray
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A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's…
— Gordon Korman
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First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters,…
— Tim O'Brien
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On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has…
— Marcel Proust
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Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
— Zig Ziglar
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No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon,…
— Julia Quinn
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My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
— Rick Riordan
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She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning…
— Shannon Hale
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That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with…
— Rick Riordan
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You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of…
— Koushun Takami
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In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to…
— Rick Riordan
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.’..all this talk about your son’s loyalty and fidelity has made me feel a sudden urge to go riding.’ His father scowled. ‘You shouldn't ride…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Wraith shoved his hands in his jeans' pockets. "How long before we consider you overdue and mount a rescue party?" "Never." Reaver shrugged into his…
— Larissa Ione
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Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up…
— Alexander MacLaren
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New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race,…
— Don Kardong
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
— Yuichiro Miura
Who Wrote These Mount Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 272 Mount Quotes, led by these top contributors: