Quotes about Mountains

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
-Edmund Hillary

"The mountains are calling and I must go."
-John Muir

"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there."
-Robert M. Pirsig

"The amount of data we will collect will be absolutely unprecedented for describing air flow over mountains."
-Jorgen Jensen

"From the get-go, we've said it's going to be fairly easy to run I-14 where it's going, and it's not going to be hard to run I-3 from Savannah up through Augusta. The really hard part is what to do with it up in the mountains."
-John Stone

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
-George William Curtis

"These homes are being shipped to Texarkana from over 370 locations east of the Rocky Mountains."
-Chris Nicely

"I have immediate plans to pursue a doctoral degree in education. That will be more convenient if I'm back on the other side of the mountains."
-Ann Sims

"Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men."
-Jose Marti

"Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains."
-Sam Walter Foss

"I wanted big landscapes and mountains and things and it ends up the cover doesn't have a mountain it."
-Tracy Byrd

"The whole point is why the mountains, the land, still determines our culture. The mountains sort of drive how we live."
-Jeff Biggers

"Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place."
-Joseph Goebbels

"This is like my water in Devore. It comes right from the mountains."
-Scott Larson

"[The gallery also includes] View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains, ... Fulton Street and Market."
-Thomas Cole

"He had successful chemotherapy that helped for a while but it just didn't help any longer. He was a lifelong lover of the Sierra and of all mountains. But the Sierra were his special love."
-Susan Fisher

"When I first showed this data to others, they had a hard time believing that mountains could pop up so quickly."
-Carmala Garzione

"Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way."
-Kate Seredy

"There are those people out there that will realize the mountains are going to be dead Sunday and it's a great opportunity to ski."
-Greg Ralph

"As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there."
-Andy Nash

"The North Georgia Mountains Authority is empowered by law to conduct business in any county in Georgia that the (Department of Natural Resources) board adopts to do so by resolution."
-Bob Newsome

"It's cheap and it's ranch country. I like the sight of the mountains."
-Robert Duvall

"He got a piece of junk in the mountains, with a very good core and kept it going. Now it's an art piece. He's a major contributor to Oregon because of that."
-John Carson

"Set against the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains, this stadium is home to UCLA's Bruins."
-Dave Hollingsworth

"It was a beautiful day, then a big ole' thing came out of mountains and it stormed like crazy. Then pretty soon the sun came out and it was a beautiful day again."
-Robert Mcfarland

"They're like very steep, peaked mountains -- and only the tops are vegetated."
-Charlie Crisafulli

"If the snow level drops, then it's staying up there in the mountains and not coming down in the rivers and melting the snow that's already there."
-Don Strickland

"The beauty of Henderson is its mountains. They ripped up the mountains and destroyed the view not only of Henderson, but the entire valley."
-Joe Kirk