Mountains Quotes

1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to… — John Muir
After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down… — L.A. Weatherly
Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be… — John Flanagan
The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute… — Thomas Wolfe
People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of… — William Butler Yeats
The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. "You look so macho clutching the door handle that… — Judy Blundell
God beckons storm clouds and they come. He tells the wind to blow and the rain to fall, and they obey immediately. He speaks to… — David Platt
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will… — Anne Lamott
Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even… — Norman Maclean
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed… — Barbara Kingsolver
All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the… — Denis Johnson
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know… — Primo Levi
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains… — Ian Fleming
Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I… — Mary Oliver
Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not… — C.S. Lewis
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of… — John Muir
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it… — William S. Burroughs
Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains. — James Patterson
Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning. — Johanna Spyri
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep...a passionate,… — Lisa Kleypas
In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am… — Mary Oliver
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and… — A. S. Byatt
They say behind mountains are more mountains. — Edwidge Danticat

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