Quotes and Sayings about Mountains
"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains."
- Diane Ackerman
(Related: Childhood, Mountains, Nothing, Summer)
"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
- Kate Adie
(Related: Mountains)
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
- Muhammad Ali
(Related: Mountains)
"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Thought, Mountains, Opium)
"These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen."
- William Henry Ashley
(Related: Growth, Mountains)
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
- Saint Augustine
(Related: Men, Mountains, Ocean, Rivers, Sea, Stars, Wonder)
"Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms."
- Milton Avery
(Related: Nature, Colors, Drama, Fantasy, Mountains, Trees, Wind)
"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."
- Hosea Ballou
(Related: Energy, Mountains, Will)
"I have been watching and drawing the surface of Mars. It is wonderfully full of detail. There is certainly no question about there being mountains and large greatly elevated plateaus."
- Edward E. Barnard
(Related: Being, Detail, Mountains, Question)
"We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Beauty, Climate, Mountains, State)
"I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Love, Nature, Body, Energy, Mountains, Sea, Singing)
"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
- Bruce Beresford
(Related: Feet, Mountains)
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
- William Blake
(Related: Men, Mountains)
"Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder."
- Andrea Bocelli
(Related: Mountains, Snow, Years)
"What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains."
- Anatoli Boukreev
(Related: Hope, Challenge, Day, Mountains, Now, Risk, Understanding, Will)
"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Time, Environment, Mountains, Quiet)
"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."
- Maurice Chevalier
(Related: Happiness, May, Mountains, Will)
"Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life."
- David Allan Coe
(Related: Life, Mountains)
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Faith, Mountains)
"I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon."
- Ezra Cornell
(Related: Moon, Mountains)
"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."
- Bernard Cornwell
(Related: Happiness, Life, Books, Mountains, Oceans)
"Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle."
- Bill Cullen
(Related: Country, End, Hollywood, Mountains)
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Patriotism, Country, Land, Loyalty, Man, Mountains, Rivers)
"Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life."
- George Cuvier
(Related: Life, Time, Mountains, State, Today)
"I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Mountains)
"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Work, Mother, May, Mountains, Sight, Years)
"Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Lies, Mountains, Snow)
"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us."
- Ruth St. Denis
(Related: Mountains, World)
"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."
- Dogen
(Related: Body, Mountains, Running, Sound, Speech, Water)
"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."
- Julia Louis Dreyfus
(Related: Computers, Mountains, Oceans, Rivers, Television)
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: Temple, Ceremony, Mountains, Rivers, Talking)
"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
- Olafur Eliasson
(Related: Mountains)
"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers."
- Black Elk
(Related: Mountains, Nothing, Now, World)
"Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains."
- Sam Walter Foss
(Related: Men, Purpose)
"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."
- Marilyn French
(Related: Men, Mountains)
"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
(Related: Experience, Women, Change, Truth, Mountains)
"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Earth, Monuments, Mountains)
"The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains."
- Ernest Hello
(Related: Man, Mountains, Nothing)
"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
- Edmund Hillary
(Related: Money, Science, Hell, Mountains)
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Faith, Mountains, Skill)
"Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born."
- Horace
(Related: Mountains, Mouse, Silly, Will)
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Men, Mountains, Sea)
"Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Blessings, Climate, Man, Mountains)
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: People, May, Mountains, Numbers)
"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Father, Mountains)
"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Clouds, Eternity, Mountains)
"There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature."
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
(Related: Nature, People, Joy, Mind, Mountains, Spirit)
"For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water."
- Chief Joseph
(Related: Men, Time, Gold, Land, Mountains, Water)
"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears."
- Helen Keller
(Related: God, Mountains, Sky)
"So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther."
- Craig Kelly
(Related: Experience, Time, Mountains)
"I learn something every time I go into the mountains."
- Michael Kennedy
(Related: Time, Mountains)
"It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot."
- Michael Kennedy
(Related: Being, Mountains, Pleasure, Sense, Traveling)
"I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Dogs, Friends, Mountains)
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Travel, People, Birds, Existence, Fish, Mountains, Rivers, Stars, World)
"I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado."
- Joe Lando
(Related: Love, Day, Mountains, Wonder)
"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Mountains)
"We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: Mountains, Service, Summer)
"The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been."
- Meriwether Lewis
(Related: People, Country, Day, Mountains)
"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."
- Daniel Libeskind
(Related: Faith, Mountains)
"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them."
- Charles Lindbergh
(Related: Clouds, Earth, Mountains, World)
"It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains."
- Pierre Loti
(Related: Children, Country, Longing, Mountains, Ocean)
"Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."
- H. P. Lovecraft
(Related: Dreams, Time, Memories, Mountains, Ocean)
"It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return."
- Alex Lowe
(Related: Peace, Control, Humility, Mountains, Vulnerability, World, Yield)
"There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest."
- Alex Lowe
(Related: Heart, Mountains, Rest)
"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
- Loretta Lynn
(Related: Growing up, Mountains, Sadness)
"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
- Loris Malaguzzi
(Related: Creativity, Children, Help, Mountains)
"The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy."
- George Leigh Mallory
(Related: Magnificence, Mountains, World)
"I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills."
- Jena Malone
(Related: Mountains)
"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Work, Talent, Mountains)
"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."
- Jose Marti
(Related: Men, Mountains, Nations)
"I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains."
- Bill Mauldin
(Related: Time, People, Army, Cartoons, Man, Mountains)
"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains."
- John Moody
(Related: Government, Company, Country, Interest, Mountains, Public)
"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."
- Grandma Moses
(Related: People, Houses, Mountains, Sky)
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
- John Muir
(Related: Mountains)
"How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!"
- John Muir
(Related: Sun)
"The mountains are calling and I must go."
- John Muir
(Related: Mountains)
"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."
- Max Muller
(Related: Books, Light, Mountains, Reading)
"You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth."
- Wayne Newton
(Related: Life, Soul, Growth, Mountains)
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Truth, Mountains, Today, Tomorrow, Training, Will)
"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
- Gale Norton
(Related: Growing up, Mountains)
"From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor."
- Solomon Ortiz
(Related: Afghanistan, Honor, Iraq, Mountains, Nation, Soldiers, Winter)
"Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills."
- Dolly Parton
(Related: Mountains)
"I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache."
- Scott Patterson
(Related: Dreams, Actor, Feet, Mountains)
"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Mountains, Storms)
"China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years."
- Li Peng
(Related: Mountains, Rivers, Years)
"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains."
- William Penn
(Related: Faith, Diligence, Mountains, Patience)
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Mountains, Zen)
"I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington."
- Janet Reno
(Related: Time, Country, Mountains, Washington)
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: Light, Mountains, Shadow)
"All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden."
- Alain Robert
(Related: Forbidden, Mountains)
"If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Mountains)
"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Beginning, End, Mountains)
"Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs."
- Saadi
(Related: Mountains)
"At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants."
- Egon Schiele
(Related: Body, Flowers, Impulses, Joy, Mountains, Plants, Present, Suffering, Trees, Water)
"I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other."
- David Selby
(Related: Family, Travel, Mountains, Past)
"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."
- Kate Seredy
(Related: Soul, Heart, Fear, Doubt, Mountains, Will)
"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Peace, Mountains)
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Mountains, World)
"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."
- Georges Simenon
(Related: Moon, Mountains, Night, Nothing)
"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top."
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Related: Faith, Courage, Exercise, Mountains)
"I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Careers, Gravity, Mountains, Walking)
"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."
- Anne Stevenson
(Related: Time, Sister, Children, Mountains, Writer)
"New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States."
- Simeon Strunsky
(Related: Mountains, states, United, Will)
"My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by."
- Ryan Sypek
(Related: Change, Love, Body, Mountains, Ocean, Water)
"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Mountains, Now, World)
"Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend."
- David Trimble
(Related: Politics, Attention, Driving, Mountains, Night)
"I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Dream, Mountains)
"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
- Mark Udall
(Related: Politics, Creativity, Mistakes, Mountains, Wilderness)
"Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: People, Books, Mountains, Plants, Rivers, Study, Trees, Water)
"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."
- Ben Vereen
(Related: Change, Life, Direction, Mountains, Parting, Quiet)
"On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!"
- Jules Verne
(Related: Clouds, Earth, Mountains, Sky)
"We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day."
- Jim Wallis
(Related: God, People, Children, Day, Living, Mountains)
"As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains."
- Patrick White
(Related: Country, Mountains, Result, School)
"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Mountains, Violets)
"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Heart, Mountains, Road)
"You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains."
- Link Wray
(Related: Flying, Mountains)
"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Dance, Fairies, Mountains, Wind, World)
"Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded."
- Fritz Zwicky
(Related: Time, Thought, Dream, Adventure, Mountains)