Beaks Quote by Hendrik Willem van Loon

If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather,…

— Lois Duncan

a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the…

— Jenny Downham

“The King said, "The third question is, how many seconds of time are there in eternity." Then said the shepherd boy, "In Lower Pomerania…

— Jacob Grimm

“Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and strengthened, they are symbols of the sacred center. Many…

— Joan Halifax

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed…

— Paulo Coelho

In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base…

— Rene Daumal

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

— Anagarika Govinda

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of…

— Robert Byron

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the…

— Anonymous

No matter how tall the mountain is, there is always a road to the top of it.

— Vikrant Parsai

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads…

— Henry David Thoreau

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you…

— Frank Lowy