The Mountain Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about The Mountain

The Mountain Quotes & Sayings

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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. — Meat Loaf

I ... am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air. — John Muir

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield. — Sabaa Tahir

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era. — Allan Wesler

Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice. — Kobayashi Issa

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view. — Philip James Bailey

You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of the mountain. What's wrong? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind ... — Khalil Gibran

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining. — David Allen

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child. — John Ruskin

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. — Thomas Love Peacock

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it. — John Darnielle

What we tell, is rarely what we do. — Gregory David Roberts

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed. — Robert Breault

And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops ... — William Shakespeare

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. — Dante Alighieri

You need the patience of a mountain to become truly enlightened. — Lamees Alhassar

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. — Loretta Lynn

Do you think Johnny Depp should have drive his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death? Why or why not? — B.J. Novak

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter. — Paul Theroux

I ask Laurie if there was any pain and she says, 'No pain, but I know what the Earth feels like making a mountain. — Allen Cohen

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ... — John Gimlette

Traveller is my only companion ... He and I ... wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence. — Robert E.Lee

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway,

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them! — Kandathil Sebastian

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. — Victor Hugo

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child

What beauty could be your life's mountain peak which you could climb all the way up? — Sorin Cerin

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

The road to the mountain of holiness first passes through the valley of humility. — Alexander Hill

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain. — Jerry Garcia

A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded. — Sander Vanocur

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain. — Frida Kahlo

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. — Robert Fulghum

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. — Martin Luther

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life. — Charles Lamb

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. — Carter G. Woodson

The weight of that name
Is sometimes a mountain
With a cave of secrets

And sometimes a feather
Floating on a puff of air — Gabrielle Prendergast

Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life.
The mountain of the dead. They left you into the daylight. — Chuck Palahniuk

I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym. — Nate Holland

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. — Oriah Mountain Dreamer

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. — Josh Malerman

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top. — Al McGuire

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. — Helen Steiner Rice

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow. — Ellis Peters

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. — Andy Rooney

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. — Drew Brees

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy. — Famke Janssen

God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home — Srinidhi.R

Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch — Gary Fisher

Whoever thought it was a good idea to plop a school on the side of a mountain must have been part billy goat. — Addison Moore

She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain. — James Baldwin

Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity? — Max Lucado

A soft and gentle growth
Under a blue sky
Over a high mountain
Extended over a vast land
When the sun comes up
Start growing — Rixa White

If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from. — Mark Nepo

Don't focus on the mountain; focus on the mountain mover! HS/el — Evinda Lepins

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain. — Robert Motherwell

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity. — Burnett Hillman Streeter

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham

If fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile. — Lisa See

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life. — Nhat Hanh

The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. — Horace

It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. — Isabella L. Bird

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain — Sun Tzu

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. — Vince Lombardi

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain. — Natalie Massenet

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain. — Haruki Murakami

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain. — Douglas Lockwood

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat. — Walter Lippmann

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn't considered possible. — Lyz Kelley

Sing will all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind — Pocahontas

When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air. — D.T. Suzuki

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend. — Van Morrison

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change. — Mahatma Gandhi

You want to climb the mountain because it's there and you know you can do it. — Alex Zanardi

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands. — Mary Wortley Montagu

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale. — Roelof Botha

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds? — Gary Larson

So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention — Nicki Minaj

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation — Hazrat Inayat Khan

With faith, we can conquer the mightiest mountain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain. — Robert M. Pirsig

Love can leap over the highest mountain,
go around the widest fortress,
go under the deepest ocean,
and go through the thickest wall. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest — Ueda Akinari

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. — Robert Morgan

The easiest way to keep a woman over your shoulder is with a hand on her ass, and the other between her legs. — Cherise Sinclair

The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger. — Edward Whymper

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way. — Dogen

The seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. — Walter Scott

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain. — Lindsey Vonn

The mountain is never as big as it appears. You're never as small as you believe. — Steve Maraboli

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man. — Gautama Buddha