Quotes About Mountains

You been going through my undies?" I asked. Bruiser's mouth twitched. " 'Cause all I got with me are the travel undies. The leather, silk, and lace stuff is all in the mountains." "You got leather undies?" Bruiser asked, intrigued. [...] I smiled, showing teeth. "Nope.

The ring comes whenever it will because it's dark where the mountains mother and being stuck in one spot is something to ring bells about

My silk heart's filled with lights, lost bells, lilies and bees, and I'll go far, further than these mountains, further than the seas, close to the stars and I'll say to Christ, Lord, give me back the child's soul I once had

The children watch a distant point. Lamps go out. Some blind girls question the moon and spirals of grief rise in the air. The mountains survey a distant point. - After Passing By

volvió a ponerse el eterno sol tras las montañas. Cambiaba yo, pero en un rosario ciego de crepúsculos giraba en redondo el tiempo.

Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped and--who knows?--self-pitying mountains, sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery.

Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains

the mountains with their purpling canyons and glittering snow peaks were a book to which there was no end. The beauty of the hills was a sermon, the whispering trees a prayer, the mountain streams songs of gladness and hymns of peace. The forest was his temple, and there he worshiped.

You're really cute, Midori," I corrected myself. "What do you mean really cute?" "So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.

when it rains in the mountains, stay out of the river.

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year.

I live in Hawaii, and the trails and mountains here are just magic.

If you want to train for big mountain endeavors, spend time in big mountains.

I was exemplifying the Olympian who took up a challenge as a sportsman, without a trainer, in a country without mountains and without snow. And, inside of two years, I was representing my country.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Milarepa wrote: In horror of death, I took to the mountains— Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Finally, the sun peeks over the mountains in a thin line of red-gold that edges the dark lake.

What river can flood over the mountains of your love?

The clouds floating white and restless in the sky were those you see only in May or June. They were innocent companions, still young and flighty, who ran playfully across the blue road to hide suddenly behind high mountains, linking arms and running away, sometimes crumpling up like handkerchiefs, sometimes unravelling into streamers, and eventually playing a practical joke by setting themselves down on the mountain like white caps.

I have always felt safest alone on the side of a hard-to-reach wall or a mountain. Although I understand that I could die in the mountains, I trust the hand of nature, and I know it will do me no harm. People seem to change and do confusing things. Places, on the other hand, I can count on.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.—Lamentations

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.