Mountains Quotes
1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors
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There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the…
— Stuart Hill
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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…
— Jack Kerouac
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Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But…
— Jon Krakauer
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Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the…
— Herman Melville
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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every…
— Ray Bradbury
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I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it,…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make…
— Daniel Handler
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Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street…
— Billy Sunday
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A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and…
— Greg Mortenson
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The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again.…
— Anne Perry
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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or…
— Anne Lamott
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The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer:…
— Paulo Coelho
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I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born…
— Haruki Murakami
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Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.…
— Sharon M. Draper
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I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more…
— Brennan Manning
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Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
— Wallace Stegner
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Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best…
— Rick Riordan
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I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one…
— Carl Jung
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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…
— Jack Kerouac
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