Childhood Quote by Francois Mauriac Download Open image “A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.” — Francois Mauriac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childhood Children Climbing Dies Men Mountain Passion Refuse
I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all… — Finis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
“Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to be heading… — Robert Seethaler Copy Share Image
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington Copy Share Image
“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“We are, all of us, molded and re-molded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain nonetheless their… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a… — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
