Mountain Quotes

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

Feel the mountain and let it show you how you're going to ski it. Relax and cruise. This isn't a fight, it's a dance, and the mountain always leads.

Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest

There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle And dark desperate hours that nobody sees My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain My head in my hands down on my knees

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.

You cannot see the mountain near.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.