290 Mountain Quotes for You to Enjoy

A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself. Stephon Marbury

Myself Clouds Smart Panther Everything Top Sun See He Always Quick Mountain Sitting Where Want Alert

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain. Tara Westover

Life Sense Mountain Sovereignty

I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Tara Westover

Morning Winter Change Spring Valley Sun Melted Only Never Had Dropped Over Fell Always Educated Been Mountain Same Behind Which Rhythms Cyclical Swept Appeared Each Each Morning Fundamental Peak

No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit. Terry Teachout

Path Translation Every Summit Way Possibly Perfect Performance Nobody Makes Up Mountain Different Different Path Production Ever

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Great Humor Men Rarely Great Men Isolated Mountain Peaks

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain. Tim Ferriss

Build Back Finally Locations High Observatory Altitude Around Up Mountain Decades Did Going After Forth Here

When I was 16, we moved to live in Stratford-Upon-Avon. That was the year of Paul Scofield's 'Lear.' I think he is still widely perceived as the only actor who has got his flag at the top of the mountain. Tim Pigott-Smith

Year Live Think Top Perceived Only He Lear Got Still His Mountain Flag Moved Paul Who Actor Widely

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. Timothy Noah

Death Welcome Will Slow Long Power Extremely States Obama Likely Makes Continue Mountain United United States Nuclear Nuclear Power

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy. Tom Colicchio

Hate Both Mountain Same Reason

When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit! Vanilla Ice

Day Home Made Few Profit Baby Took Sold Later Saw Several Properties Records Cabin Had Touring Bought Surprise Years Huge Miami Selling Michael Mountain Break Ice Them Then Next Cobweb Utah Palace Million Fox

I stood in front of a mountain and was overwhelmed by the beauty and energy; I had goosebumps. I thought, if I could record this feeling, go back home and pour it out again so other people can have that feeling, this I would want to be my work. I knew it was acting - I wanted to be like a messenger or medium. Vicky Krieps

Work Home People Thought Pour Feeling Beauty Energy Other Medium Back Out Would Record Could Had Knew Like Goosebumps Messenger Go Mountain Overwhelmed Front Stood Want Wanted Again If I Could Acting

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle. Victor LaValle

Time Battle Three Soldier Soldiers Had He Line Command Been His Years Georgia June Mountain Efficiency Northern Bravery Union

We made this mountain with 'Vulgar Display Of Power,' and that was a pretty damn tall mountain to climb. Vinnie Paul

Made Power Damn Pretty Vulgar Tall Climb Mountain Display

What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it. Vir Das

Funny Me Important Heroine Top Take Arms Spread Still Off Shirt Mountain Mountain Top Even Actor Twist

I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend. W. Bruce Cameron

Me Dog Long First Met Lost Way Possibly Tail Colorado Reminded Looked She Version Friend Rode Very Mountain Just Bike Much Convinced Who Riding Reincarnated Away Her

Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain. Watkin Tudor Jones

Side City Weird Town Mountain Tucked Little Cape Sea

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush. William Morris Hunt

Humanity World Long Beauty Single Own Others Definition Neither Mutton See Some Compound Something Absurd Contained Accept Nor Leg Mountain Expect Same Blue Nose Little Straight Use Whole Fills

There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite. Yi So-Yeon

You Space Addictive Back Fingers Something Like Although Makes Climber Go Were Mountain Want Cut Who

I am pretty laid-back as a parent, but I do like a lot of activity. So I am constantly suggesting things to do that involve some physical activity: cycling, mountain biking and paddleboarding. Bill Bailey

I Am Cycling Constantly Physical Physical Activity Some Pretty Parent Like Involve Am Lot Mountain Biking Activity Things Suggesting

Comedy is an indoors thing, so I take every opportunity to go outside. A lot of that involves finding places that are remote, or places where you can look at birds, or do mountain biking or paddle boarding or walking. Bill Bailey

You Comedy Opportunity Every Birds Finding Take Outside Indoors Remote Look Involves Go Lot Mountain Walking Where Places Boarding Paddle Biking Thing Every Opportunity

Yucca Mountain isn't pretty. And it also isn't large. From far away, the mountain's just a squat bulge in the middle of the desert, essentially just debris from a bigger, stronger mountain that erupted millions of years ago and hurled its broken pieces into piles across the earth. John D'Agata

Broken Stronger Earth Pretty Pieces Also Piles Years Years Ago Debris Mountain Squat Essentially Just Middle Bigger Far Far Away Across Large Desert Away Millions Millions Of Years

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