Quotes of: Mounting Keyword

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos

(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.) Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four time...

George S. Kaufman

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

Gary Johnson

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Edmund Hillary

Reverend Clayton: Mount! M-O-N-T-E! Mount!

The Searchers

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

Tenzing Norgay

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Feed your horse as a friend, mount him as an enemy.

Croatian

Let the devil get into the church, and he will mount the altar.

German

The man who has mounted an elephant will not fear the bark of a dog.

Indian

When a slave mounts a camel he wants to ride on both humps.

Egyptian

Only by falling do you learn how to mount a horse.

Kurdish

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

Roger Bannister

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Sermon on the Mount and the Magnificat

When he mounts his horse he forgets God; when he dismounts, he forgets his horse.

Russian

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

Edmund Hillary

You should climb Mount Fujiyama once in your life. Climb it twice and you're a fool.

Japanese

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.

Speak

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Martin Luther

Dan Nilsson even remarks of compound eyes that ‘It is only a small exaggeration to say that evolution seems to be fighting a desperate battle to improve a basically disastrous design.

Climbing Mount Improbable