Mountain Quotes

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Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band. — Brandi Carlile
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own… — Albert Camus
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or… — Maurice Chevalier
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that… — Sam Abell
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. — Henri Frederic Amiel
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep… — William Arthur Ward
We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. — Winston Churchill
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them.… — Laozi
Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like… — Jacques Loeb
Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb. — Confucius
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the… — Milarepa
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you… — Henri Nouwen
We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for… — Pope John Paul II
To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to… — Edward McKendree Bounds
What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds? — Gary Larson
Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar. — Sogyal Rinpoche
There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love that you know,… — Rajneesh
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes

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