Mountain Quotes - Page 20

• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.

  Diana Ossana

  Lonely, Art, Jobs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Memories, Rocks, Perspective

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• Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.

  Mark Feuerstein

  Running, Beach, Nice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by the view from our elevation - off west the lights of Montana, Hungry Horse, and Columbia Falls, and farmsteads along the northern edge of Flathead Lake, and back in the direction of sunrise the soft and misted valleys of the parklands, not an electric light showing: little enough to preserve for the wanderings of a great and sacred animal who can teach us, if nothing else, by his power and his dilemma, a little common humility.

  William Kittredge

  Horse, Fall, Sleep

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• Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

  Erik Reece

  World, Sin, Modern

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Egypt, Forever

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

  Ikkyu

  Inspirational, Life, Moon

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• First of all, who's your A&R?
  A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar?
  But he don't know the meaning of dope,
  When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap
  That's cleaner than a bar of soap!
  And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight,
  Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.

  GZA

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

  Bobby Petrino

  Song, Singing, Bears

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• 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

  Wind, House, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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

  Wayne Newton

  Soul, Growth, Valleys

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• There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Would Be, Wonderful

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• As time passes on
  I turn the next page
  To discover a new me
  while I continue to age.
  I may no longer be
  Who I was long ago
  But I still can matter -
  That much I know.
  With a new set of tools
  I have gathered from time -
  I keep looking forward
  To more mountains to climb.
  My best is not over
  As the skeptics might say -
  I just learn how to conquer
  In a much wiser way.
  So don't sell me short -
  I am not nearly done -
  I CAN STILL MATTER -
  I've only just begun.

  Tom Krause

  Retirement, Long Ago, Age

  Tom Krause, “I Can Still Matter”

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• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Irritation, Hiking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1030, Library of America

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Sleep, Journey

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• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  Caleb Carr

  Years, Humanity, World

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• You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Life, Long, Shining

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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