Mountains Quotes
1228 Mountains quotes by 834 unique authors
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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and…
— John Lasseter
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a…
— Bjork
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Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I…
— Bjork
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The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals…
— Paul Theroux
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Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.
— Henry J. Heinz
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In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.
— Chris Carter
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I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is…
— Mario Testino
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Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia,…
— Lee Smith
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You can fix your body, your heart, your diabetes. In Korea, China, and India, there are people who do yoga. They go to the mountains…
— Seungsahn
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The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
— Bayard Taylor
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Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying.
— Wil S. Hylton
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Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
— Patrick Murphy
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of…
— Ueli Gegenschatz
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky…
— Cynthia Ozick
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
— Ben Elliot
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My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore…
— Joyce Giraud
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A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short…
— Mencius
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
— Samina Baig
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I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the…
— Claire Cameron
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Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my…
— John James Audubon
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It rained a lot in New Hampshire, and when I skied, the snow was icy and hard, and the mountains were small.
— Mikaela Shiffrin
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From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday…
— Luke Evans
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Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west…
— Kim Edwards
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