Mountain Quotes
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Katarina Witt
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If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
Cennino Cennini
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Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,And trifles life.
Edward Young
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates
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Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.
Du Mu
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
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With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World
Xiang Yu
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
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I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.
Megan Fox
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Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]
Dolly Parton
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
D. B. Weiss
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
Rachel Boston
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I guess I am in handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm... average?
Bobby Lee
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I've had enough of giving millionaires like Dick Cheney and myself tax breaks and giving America's kids a mountain of debt.
James Carville
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I think, every time I'm on the mountain, I'm just so thankful to be there.
Chloe Kim
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
Rachel Boston
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I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.
Régine Alexandra Chassagne
Arcade Fire
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Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams
W. H. Auden
