Alps Quotes

• Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Real, Sunshine, Night

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• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Climbing, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

  Alexander Pope

  Hills, Arise

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 232

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• There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

  Mark Twain

  Climbing, People, Pleasure

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.246, Xist Publishing

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• Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Men, Worry

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

  Mark Twain

  Zero, Hard Work, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Yodeling, Naysayers, Stills

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• A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Glaciers, Company

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.152, Courier Corporation

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• There shall be no Alps.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

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• For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Snowboarding, Energy

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• Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

  Elton John

  Thinking, Flying, Sometimes

  "Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th", news.bbc.co.uk. March 23, 2007.

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• Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

  Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne

  Rocks, Ideas, Water

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• You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

  Chris Frantz

  Winter, Germany, Want

  "Rockers Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth Talk Marriage". Interview with John Clarke, www.rollingstone.com. July 4, 2013.

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• New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Trying, Firsts

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq”, p.340

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• All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

  John Ruskin

  White, Snow, Progress

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

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• Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

  Johanna Spyri

  Grandfather, Earth, My Grandfather

  Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature”, p.73, e-artnow

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• Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sunset, Fire, Clouds

  'Miracles'

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• The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

  Groucho Marx

  Simple, Shoes, Lord

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• Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Lying, Snow, Valleys

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.28

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• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Party, Engagement, Centre

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• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Rivers, San Francisco, Hudson River

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• O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

  John Milton

  Lakes, Rocks, Caves

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

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• I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Simple, Scotland, Capes

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• The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than the Libs or anyone else in Australian's history, but there was substance to it.

  Warren Mundine

  Party, Book, People

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