Top 1200 Mountain Peaks Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

I love bitter broccoli rabe tossed with Calabrian chiles and hidden under a mountain of snowy shaved Parmesan.

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

Climbing the mountain is always more fun than sitting at the top. It's just you have to find different mountains to climb.

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time.

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks, but there ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody, 'Look at me!' Now I'm more of a Taoist.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

I got Twin Peaks, and the part was basically written for me, which was a really big shock. I think everything really changed with the right teacher coming together, but before that I worked with Sondra Seacat; she's amazing and very spiritual, but I hadn't worked with her on specific roles. I just was in classes with her.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

I...am always glad to touch the living rock again and dip my hand in the high mountain air.

'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.