Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a… — Barry Goldwater
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… — Wendell Berry
Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers.… — Ronald Reagan
You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What… — Ronald Reagan
In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value… — Wendell Berry
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles… — Leonardo da Vinci
When you believe in something, you can move mountains. — Isaac Stern
Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain.… — Mao Zedong
For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing… — John Denver
Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought. — Dogen
We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,… — Edward Abbey
We must not let ourselves fall into the vortex of pessimism. Faith can move mountains! — Pope Francis
Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your… — Edward Abbey
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech. — Freya Stark
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers. — Richard Paul Evans
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential… — Ansel Adams
A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland,… — George Mikes
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means… — W. Somerset Maugham
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,… — Mao Zedong
We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains. — May Sarton
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and… — Anne Stevenson

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