Mountain Quotes
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I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
Charles Frazier -
When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
Daniel Bruhl
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
Caleb Carr -
I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and the snow falling and that silence, that snow silence. That's, like, a very peaceful, happy place for me.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. -
I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.
Morten Harket A-ha -
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
Cormac McCarthy -
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
David Allan Coe -
I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
Kate Winslet
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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 -
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
Alan Alda -
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
Sam Abell -
The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
Duane Chapman -
I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
Caleb Carr
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
Raha Moharrak -
There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
R. Kelly -
There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?
Taliesin -
On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
Maeve Binchy -
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
Ernest Hemingway -
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis
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Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
Hannah Kearney -
Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if I Could be perfect, like the light - Jesus for a night and have It my way - if I could be Atop my mountain a phenomenon - when I walk on water I am Complete, at peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.
Macy Gray -
Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
Rainer Maria Rilke