Top 1200 Mountain Peaks Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Qing Cheng Mountain was a direct influence on the mysterious final shot of 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

I'm going to die one day. I know it's coming for me, too. I'll be a mountain, I'll be a stone on the beach. I'll be nourishment.

I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

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

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.

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

The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.

I have traveled all over the world and gone to the highest peaks, and the densest jungles. The Carpathain Mountians will always be my homeland, but my home is a woman. Solange Sangria. You are home to me. Your body is my home. Your mind. Your heart and soul. It matters little to me where we are.

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

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

Do not fail to learn from The pure voice of an Ever-flowing mountain stream Splashing over the rocks.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

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

As a mountain walker, one of the most frustrating mistakes one can make in bad weather is taking the wrong route down.

Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.

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

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

In 'Bigg Boss 12' house one needs to make a mountain out of a molehill. It's an art and I don't specialise in it.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that."

Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

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

I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.

The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.

I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.'

Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

My hike up the Snake Path at Masada was mystical. The fog rolled in, enveloping the entire mountain.

I'm inspired by everything, really. I'm inspired by locations and travel, I'm inspired by art and music, I'm inspired by people. When my curiosity peaks and I want to know everything about the subject, I want to know how I can get more deeply involved.

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

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'