Mountain Quotes

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Fawn M. Brodie

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Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Ric Flair

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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

John Berger

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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.

Dana Hill

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

Morris Gleitzman

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When I was out of work when I first moved to L.A., one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney, and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.

Melissa Rauch

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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Edmund Hillary

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It could be the case that all the studies supporting a warming planet are wrong; science always leaves that door open, but anthropogenic climate change remains the best explanation for a mountain of data that scientists have been poring over for a century.

Kyle Hill

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Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

John Muir

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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

Earl Wilson

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The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

Klaus Kinski

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I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Robert Littell

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The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel the urge to belong - not necessarily to the people, but to the landscape.

Justin Cartwright

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Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Maureen O'Hara

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I love all music, but when I am on the mountain, I listen to a lot of Nas, Drake, 2 Pac, etc.

Jamie Anderson

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My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

Andy Serkis

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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Horace

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

Stephen Curry

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I don't like Las Vegas. I'd rather be mountain biking or climbing.

Greg Brenneman

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Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

Steven Pinker

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We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

George W. Bush

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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert W. Service

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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.

Eric Metaxas

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

Robert Zoellick

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