Mountain Quotes

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Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and… — Jim Bowden
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of… — Peter Matthiessen
Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all… — Julia Cameron
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti… — Mao Zedong
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River.… — Mao Zedong
It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set… — Harold S. Kushner
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains… — Alfred Wainwright
In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains… — Silas House
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. — Benoit Mandelbrot
A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer… — Earl Hamner, Jr.
Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to… — Gene Roddenberry
I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually… — Margaret Cho
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following… — William Wordsworth
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are… — Mao Zedong
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Unknown Author
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson
There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley,… — Jan Morris
On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning. — Henry David Thoreau
General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if… — George Meade
Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place — Tullian Tchividjian

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