Mountains Quotes

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

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.

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.

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.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

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.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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!

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

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.

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.

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.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

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.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.