Quotes of: Highest-mountain Keyword

I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.

The Mountain Story

Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.

A Mountain of Crumbs

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

Eric Hoffer

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

Caleb Carr

I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

Tamae Watanabe

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Samina Baig

As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intens...

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness fa...

At the Mountains of Madness

A curiosity . . . no, a need for a different kind of communion. One with people not of the mountain, but rather the outsiders of the Ridge. She couldn’t explain the call of Angel Ridge. Women before her, like her mother, had experienced the same...

What The Heart Wants

The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.

American

No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.

Chinese

The higher the mountain the lower the valley, the taller the tree the harder the fall.

Dutch

When a camel is at the foot of a mountain only then judge his height.

Indian

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

And the Mountains Echoed

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

My father used to say there are two kinds of people: the noticers and the noticed

The Mountain Story

My father used to say there are two kinds of people. The notices and the noticed.

The Mountain Story

Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there.

Madeline Moore

Mountain Man: I bet you can squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee! Bobby: Weee! Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee! Bobby: Weee!

Deliverance

There are many paths up the mountain, but the view from the top is always the same.

Chinese