Mountain Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

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.

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

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.

I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

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.

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.

You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.