Alps Quotes

• God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • God
  • Made
  • River

• Butforme, the Alps and their people were a like beautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Thrones

• I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Beauty
  • Travelled
  • Alps

• “But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans.”

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Things
  • Memories
  • Alps

• There solid billows of enormous size, Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.

  

  Ambrose Philips
  • Rise
  • Alps
  • Billows

• There shall be no Alps.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Alps