Mountain Quotes
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I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.
Nanao Sakaki
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
W. S. Merwin
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Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.
Frances Beinecke
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn
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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley
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Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
Faith Hunter
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
William O. Douglas
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Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.
Dell Curry
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
Gary Johnson
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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
Bradley Chicho
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
Diana Ross
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My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.
Lisa Unger
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If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.
Nanao Sakaki
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More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
Mark Pocan
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
William Shakespeare
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People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska's North Slope, a vast tundra, flat and treeless, on and on and on, from the foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range to the Arctic Ocean, an endless, unchanging landscape bigger than Idaho.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.
Barry Moltz
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It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.
Arlo Guthrie
