Mountain Quotes

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

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.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.