Mountains Quotes
1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors
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I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in…
— Dave Eggers
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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with…
— Black Elk
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their…
— Sam Walter Foss
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but…
— Werner Herzog
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
— Edmund Hillary
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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too…
— Edmund Hillary
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
— Eric Hoffer
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
— Victor Hugo
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Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
— Aldous Huxley
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking…
— Steve Jobs
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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding…
— Chief Joseph
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
— Helen Keller
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I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.
— Miranda Kerr
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I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I…
— Margot Kidder
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family…
— Val Kilmer
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're…
— Queen Latifah
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are…
— Queen Latifah
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing…
— D. H. Lawrence
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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And…
— Elmore Leonard
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I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
— H P Lovecraft
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