I am a Cartesian clear and distinct object on this pyramidal peak of the mountain, where the echoes trail off almost forever the horizon.
~ Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders.
~ Steven Magee
The Protestants taught their followers that faith is needed for hard work because every hardship on its own discourages, hence you need faith not to be discouraged. The faith you have, keeps you going and makes you to pass through the valley and the mountain top.
~ Sunday Adelaja
No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .
~ James Rozoff
So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight. Renn sucked in her breath. You've go to try.
~ Michelle Paver
One isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.- Poppy (quoting Win)
~ Lisa Kleypas
It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain.
Life is like a trek to the mountain top. Everyone will eventually climb to the top. Later, or sooner, doesn't matter. What matters is - the person who holds your hand and prevents you from falling, the one who is always there to ease the climb for you...
~ Mehek Bassi
To be a plain means to die for a mountain; to be a mountain means to die for a plain! Thus, to kill a mountain, make it plain; to kill a plain, make it mountain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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~ Kamil Ali
If you are focused on God, then all “mountains” are under your feet.
Climbing is as close as we can come to flying.
~ Margaret Young
A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones.
~ Vasily Grossman
Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.
~ David Mitchell
Don't focus on the mountain; focus instead on the mountain mover! HS/el
~ Evinda Lepins
Don't judge people because someone's molehill could be another person's mountain.
~ Uzoma Nnadi
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
~ Wilma Rudolph
The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.
~ John Tyler
I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.
~ Julian Lennon
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
~ Ted Nugent
Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.
~ Ric Flair
I'm not typically a roller coaster person, but Space Mountain I really love out of all roller coasters. That and Splash Mountain.
~ Sara Ramirez
No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
~ Dolly Parton
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
~ John Muir
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
~ Theodore Roethke
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
~ John Lubbock
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
~ Thomas Campbell
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
~ Victor Hugo
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
~ Matthew Arnold
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
~ Timothy Noah
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
~ Waylon Jennings
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.
~ W. H. Auden
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
~ Peter Benchley
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
~ Martin Luther King
More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
~ Mark Pocan
