Mountain Quotes

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Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about… — Bill Owens
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. — Thomas Campbell
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave… — William Henry Ashley
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. — Guy Johnson
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would… — John Hench
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the… — Hugh Miller
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice… — Robert Morgan
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. — Kathe Kollwitz
Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if… — Anatoli Boukreev
I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink… — Anatoli Boukreev
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus… — Lactantius
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. — Bradley Chicho
We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion,… — Tippi Hedren
When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am… — Eric Ripert
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer.… — Mohsin Hamid
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high… — Edmund Hillary
Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below — John Muir
I have taken unto myself her fortune and her glory, as a wreath off a tree. Like a mountain with broad foundation may she sit… — Atharva Veda
To motivate man is to move a mountain! — Gillis Triplett
Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going… — C.S. Lewis

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