Mountain Quotes
2288 quotes by 1426 authors
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Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and…
— Avicenna
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Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
— Jose Marti
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I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love…
— David Ignatow
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O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!
— Walter Scott
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I have heard about a patient - the psychiatrist was bored with him. Of course, he was getting enough money out of him, but he…
— Rajneesh
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So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the…
— Rajneesh
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation…
— Rajneesh
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When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which…
— Unknown Author
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
— Diana Ross
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
— Kate Seredy
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
— Barry Mann
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We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
— Jim Wallis
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China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
— Li Peng
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Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape…
— Herb Ritts
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All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
— Alain Robert
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
— Horace
Who Wrote These Mountain Quotes
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