Alps Quote by Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne

One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and…

— J. E. H. MacDonald

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an…

— Benito Mussolini

“Such apparently illogical actions are almost never inspired by a single motive. They spring from an unknown number of threads, perhaps thousands of them,…

— Miklós Bánffy

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

— Alexander Pope

How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no…

— Tanith Lee

You can't move mountains by whispering at them.

— Pink

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...

— Alexander Pope

Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.

— John O'Donohue

“Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful…

— Robert MacFarlane

“Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of…

— Alexander Pope