Top Mountains Quotes
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Katherine Dunham
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
Famous Mountains Authors
Link Wray
John Muir
Muhammad Ali
John Ruskin
Jena Malone
Edmund Hillary
Dogen
Daniel Libeskind
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ryan Sypek
Rick Danko
Black Elk
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All Mountains Quotes
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
Kate Adie 
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
David Trimble
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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul
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I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
Christy Turlington
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Hosea Ballou
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats
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Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
Gale Norton
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I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
David Selby
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At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Egon Schiele
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
Olafur Eliasson
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Popular Mountains Authors
Henry David ThoreauFriedrich NietzscheMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareVictor HugoEric HofferJohn Ruskin HoraceDavid Herbert LawrenceAldous HuxleyWilliam BlakeHelen KellerLoretta LynnWilliam Butler YeatsHenri Frederic Amiel
Chief JosephSoren KierkegaardMuhammad AliJose MartiJean PaulTennessee WilliamsRobert Green IngersollWilliam PennMargot KidderNathaniel HawthorneChristy TurlingtonEllsworth HuntingtonJulia Louis-DreyfusSylvester StalloneMorihei Ueshiba
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