"Because I would rather be with my grandfather……" — Johanna Spyri

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• New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... — Alexander Pope
• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has… — Grete Waitz
• Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, ‘That’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.’ — Elton John
• I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the… — Alexander Graham Bell
• I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing… — Mavis Gallant
• Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can… — Stephen Malkmus
• Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps… — Benito Mussolini
• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place… — Patricia Hewitt
• Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from… — Unknown Author
• Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward… — Edward Burnett Tylor
• There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which… — Mark Twain

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