Top 1200 Mountain Peaks Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Stay positive but stay focused. Sometimes things can distract you and you don't want to be distracted on the journey to that mountain top.

The thematically related 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Brokeback Mountain' reinforced the narrative that gays like Mr. Shepard are regularly isolated for cruel and unusual attacks.

For me, it was the right decision to go to United, because going to the top of the mountain was my dream, especially when you come from Eastern Europe, from a small town, and no one's done it before you.

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

We're not going to ride on Space Mountain and do the Disney thing. Forget Mickey. This is freaking 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator' stuff that we are trying to will onto other teams.

Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

Among all researchers who have worked in the African field, I consider myself one of the most fortunate because of the privilege of having been able to study the mountain gorilla.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

I have been a wrestler now for 12 years, and now I am reaching this peak at the top of the mountain - WrestleMania.

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people up the hill, to conquer the mountain, to sack the city. You have got to be a maniac.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this. We ate dinner in front of this." "Everyone watched Twin Peaks," was her response. "So, if everyone jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it, too?" "Don't be silly," she laughed, "of course I would, honey. There'd be no one left on the planet. It would be a very lonely place.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.

I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

I felt 'Brokeback Mountain' re-imbued the love story with an authentic and unquestionable series of obstacles that these men faced. I think that's certainly true for 'Carol' as well.

If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.

I had the one goal to become world champion for so long and now that I've achieved it, I thought that it was the top of the mountain. But now that I'm up there, it's not.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

One of the only TV shows that I really love is 'Twin Peaks.' Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I'm in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it's really weird.

The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.