Mountain Top Quotes
56 quotes by 49 authors
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Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
— Nils Kjaer
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Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the…
— John Denver
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The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
— Gregory Palamas
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Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing…
— Winston Graham
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There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
— Andy Richter
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Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with…
— William Shakespeare
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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes…
— Tom Turner
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I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.
— Julian Lennon
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Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to…
— Bob Seger
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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on…
— John Muir
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Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
— John Muir
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Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents…
— John Muir
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy,…
— Brenda Ueland
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There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is…
— Bell Hooks
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A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until…
— William Butler Yeats
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It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and…
— Barack Obama
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I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Who Wrote These Mountain Top Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 56 Mountain Top Quotes, led by these top contributors: