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Mountain Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain
- And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to…
- and silence is the golden mountain
- It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
- Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...
- We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we…
- Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They…
- Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
- Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
- I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be…
- Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are…
More Mountain Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the… — Edward Abbey
- Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it… — Bob Beauprez
- Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor… — Joseph Addison
- I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean. — Emma Bell
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake