"Wherever we go in the mountains, we find more than we seek."
Read quote
9 likes
Mountain quotes
Mountain
1.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mountain
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mountain — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mountain quotes (page 7 of 54)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"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"
Read quote
9 likes
"I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth."
Read quote
8 likes
"Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank"
Read quote
8 likes
"If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed."
Read quote
8 likes
"When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf."
Read quote
8 likes
"From every mountain side, Let freedom ring."
Read quote
8 likes
"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."
Read quote
8 likes
"If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking."
Read quote
8 likes
"Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards."
Read quote
8 likes
"He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain."
Read quote
8 likes
"We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction."
Read quote
8 likes
"Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain."
Read quote
8 likes
"Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft–and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile."
Read quote
8 likes
"I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain."
Read quote
8 likes
"Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain."
Read quote
8 likes
"Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels"
Read quote
8 likes
"I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't."
Read quote
7 likes
"This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs."
Read quote
7 likes
"Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains."
Read quote
7 likes