Mountain Quotes
2288 quotes by 1426 authors
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Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty…
— Nadeem Aslam
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Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid.…
— Yoko Ogawa
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister…
— Kangna Ranaut
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To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and…
— Etel Adnan
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For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement…
— Unknown Author
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Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel…
— Unknown Author
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We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly.…
— Paul Provenza
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The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like a commune and…
— Ben Daniels
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Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging…
— Graham Hancock
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We use the word God. God hooks all the other words up. I'm the pope. I'm ten times the pope. I'm sixty times the pope.…
— Charles Manson
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All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled…
— Louis Kahn
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I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it…
— Aldo Leopold
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty…
— Wendell Berry
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I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it,…
— Annie Dillard
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Streams and mountains never stay the same.
— Gary Snyder
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The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
— Rick Bass
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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
— William Arthur Ward
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