Quotes of: Mountains Keyword

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Graham Joyce

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Ellen Gilchrist

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Loretta Lynn

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Bill Bradley

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

Guy Johnson

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

Paul Stanley

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.

Werner Herzog

I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

Edmund Hillary

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

Morris Gleitzman

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

Earl Wilson

A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.

Feroz Bham

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Henry Rollins

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Ikkyu

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Ernest Hemingway

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

Bill Janklow

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

Chris Carter

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

Harley King

Anything that involves the outdoors I'm all about, whether it be skiing, snowboarding, wakesurfing to mountain-biking. Anything that gets me outside.

Daniel Cudmore

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Don King