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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. -- Edmund Hillary
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line. -- Alan Rickman
Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. -- Ric Flair
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -- Robert W. Service
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. -- Wilma Rudolph
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. -- John Muir
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain. -- Neil Young
Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music -- Matsuo Basho
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels -- Matsuo Basho
Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain -- Sun Tzu
George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.' -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death -- Hanshan
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I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that. -- John Darnielle
Todays the day gonna grab my trombone and blow Thunder on the Mountain -- Bob Dylan
Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom. -- Gao Xingjian
Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail. -- Hanshan
We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown. -- Nickolas Ashford
Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon. -- Denise Levertov
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. -- Samina Baig
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself. -- Nanao Sakaki
You might be a redneck if you think the Mountain Men in Deliverance were just misunderstood. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry. -- Ned Overend
My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain. -- Lindsey Vonn
Anglesey has two deserts, one made by Nature, the other made by Man: Newborough and Parys Mountain. -- Edward Greenly
Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. -- David Letterman
Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear -- Casar Jacobson
Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals... -- John Gimlette
Thereâ??s going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and itâ??s going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria, -- Chris McDaniel
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War. -- Max Lucado
I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it. -- John Darnielle
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak. -- Paul D. Boyer
I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. -- Sun Tzu
I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate. -- Caleb Carr
Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us. -- Katharine Graham
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm. -- Charles Frazier
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain. -- Steve Fossett
If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale. -- Roelof Botha
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters. -- Anthony Hopkins
What are men to rocks and mountains? -- Jane Austen
Going to the mountains is going home. -- John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go. -- John Muir
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. -- John Muir
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! -- John Muir
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. -- Barbara Walters
The only mountain that I would still like to climb: I'd like to break 85. -- Peter Falk
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb. -- Abby Wambach
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -- Theodore Roethke
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way! -- Dr. Seuss
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. -- Jeanne Moreau
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. -- Andy Rooney
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... -- John Muir
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. -- Og Mandino
Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. -- Richard M. Nixon
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. -- Edward Abbey
I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success. -- Anthony Goldbloom
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. -- W. H. Auden
If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life. -- Sylvester Stallone
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. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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. -- John Lubbock
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer. -- Dick Cavett
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls. -- Gloria Reuben
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news -- John Muir
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? -- Khalil Gibran
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. -- Khalil Gibran
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers. -- Black Elk
Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities. -- Judith Martin
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. -- John Muir
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational. -- Montel Williams
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. -- William Arthur Ward
I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. -- James Joyce
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move. -- Olafur Eliasson
Like a mountain that's growing. -- Neil Young
You will conquer every mountain. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. -- John Milton
Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes. -- Rory Stewart
Lord, we don't need another mountain. -- Jackie DeShannon
The mountain violets break the rocks. -- Tennessee Williams
On every mountain height is rest. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You cannot see the mountain near... -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One's nature is like a mountain -- Hisham Matar
and silence is the golden mountain -- Jack Kerouac
You can't climb a smooth mountain -- Zig Ziglar
What wonders lie in every mountain day! -- John Muir
You are the mountain and the valley. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew. -- Samuel Rogers
But teaching is like climbing a mountain. -- Fawn M. Brodie
For every mountain, there is a miracle. -- Robert H. Schuller
Over all the mountain tops is peace. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.... -- Samuel Francis Smith
Success sits on a mountain of mistakes -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
To make a mountain out of a mole-hill. -- Havelock Ellis
Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby -- Michael Jackson
Water finds the easiest path down a mountain. -- Michael Lomenda
Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome. -- James Bethea
With patient and perseverance, the mountain is conquered. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds. -- Dakotsu Iida
I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain. -- Walter Benjamin
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks. -- John Burroughs
But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers. -- Mark Twain
I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women. -- Samina Baig
The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills. -- Maxwell Maltz
Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. -- William Arthur Ward
We must conquer every mountain to fulfill the dream. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We shall conquer every mountain in Jesus name Amen! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Go forward and conquer any mountain on your path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I look down the farthest side of the mountain, -- James Elroy Flecker
She was a girl with a mountain to climb. -- Markus Zusak
Someday we'll know if love can move a mountain. -- Mandy Moore
Age - it's the one mountain you can't overcome. -- Joan Rivers
I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it. -- Raha Moharrak
Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence. -- Nora Roberts
At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain. -- John Lennon

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