Mountains Quotes

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
Rudolf Otto

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
Ellsworth Huntington

Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.
Loris Malaguzzi

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

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.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

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

Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Marguerite Blessington

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.

To those men who are born for mountains, the struggle can never end, until their lives end. To them it holds the very quintessence of living - the fiery core, after the lesser parts have been burned away.
Elizabeth Knowlton

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove.

Two voices are there: one is of the sea, One of the mountains,-each a mighty voice.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.

I've rode o'er hot, dry deserts And over mountains tall I believed in the bad land sayin' "A good gun never falls"

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.

I have climbed highest mountains,I have run through the field,only to be with you.I have run,I have crawled,I have scaled these city walls,only to be with you.But I still haven't found what I'm looking for







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