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I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. -- Gary Johnson
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. -- Edmund Hillary
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. -- Tony Campolo
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. -- Ralph Fiennes
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. -- Cecil B. DeMille
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. -- Edmund Hillary
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. -- Harry S Truman
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. -- Orson Welles
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. -- Alan Huffman
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. -- George Leigh Mallory
I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me. -- Raha Moharrak
The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. -- Hans Jonas
Mount Calvary is the academy of love. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Mount and begone. The world awaits you. -- Mervyn Peake
Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. -- George Leigh Mallory
... Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore ... -- Kris Kristofferson
O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! -- Kobayashi Issa
The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. -- John McPhee
Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation! -- Bob Marley
Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain. -- Lewis Pugh
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. -- George Leigh Mallory
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. -- John Cassavetes
And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. -- Anne Rice
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. -- Pete Dye
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. -- Zig Ziglar
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. -- Roger Bannister
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. -- George Bernard Shaw
No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai. -- Spencer W. Kimball
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! -- Aldous Huxley
Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry. -- Joel McHale
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. -- Wayne Thiebaud
Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. -- Samuel Rutherford
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount. -- Barack Obama
Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns! -- Pat Buchanan
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. -- William Jennings Bryan
There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. -- Karl G. Maeser
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. -- Charles Sturt
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. -- John Muir
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Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year. -- Jochen Zeitz
There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. -- Morihei Ueshiba
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting. -- Etel Adnan
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) -- Edward Abbey
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet. -- James Dwight Dana
I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn't mean I have any intention of trying to climb it -- Jeaniene Frost
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters. -- Yuichiro Miura
Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac. -- Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. -- Natalie du Toit
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? -- Ron Fournier
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. -- Jon Krakauer
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. -- Tenzing Norgay
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. -- Joyce Maynard
Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon. -- John Barrowman
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. -- Roland Smith
If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further. -- Israelmore Ayivor
He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps. -- Henry Graff
For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam. -- Ann Coulter
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and"?oh, yeah"?head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time. -- Rick Riordan
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. -- Evelyn Glennie
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. -- Richard Dawkins
THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin. -- Robert Orben
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro. -- Henry David Thoreau
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world. -- Tamae Watanabe
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love's stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love's horse will carry you home. -- Rumi
If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police. -- Uri Orbach
I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born. -- Danny Burstein
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. -- Joseph Goebbels
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . -- Amy Johnson
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California -- Joaquin Miller
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. -- Barbara Kingsolver
So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it. -- Rick Riordan
The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. -- Douglas MacArthur
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it. -- Daniel Webster
A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs. -- Harry S. Truman
To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now. -- Andrew Sullivan
Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing! -- Edmund Hillary
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top. -- Jacqueline Susann
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do. -- Christy Turlington
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another. -- Chico Xavier
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. -- Alan Rickman
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn. -- Philip Yancey
A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead. -- Robert Bateman
If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.' -- Mahatma Gandhi
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. -- George R. R. Martin
That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature. -- Rick Riordan
She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady -- Shannon Hale
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai. -- Noah Webster
Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. -- Charles Sturt
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. -- Ari Fleischer
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest -- Ari Fleischer
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. -- Harry S Truman
I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat. -- Rick Riordan
I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. -- Paul Watson
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. -- Frederick Scott Oliver
But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do. -- Claudia Gray
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake. -- Kurt Vonnegut
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount -- Frederick Scott Oliver
In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
I wouldnt mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. -- Colin Wilson
The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ. -- John Quincy Adams
Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published. -- Robert Orben
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. -- Yuichiro Miura
There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. -- John Frankenheimer
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain. -- Leonard Cohen
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting. -- Yuichiro Miura
People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary. -- Ed Begley, Jr.

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