#mountains

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bring #empires #eras #match #me

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. ↗

— David Selby

#been #depend #difficult #each #family

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#body #everywhere #flowers #human #human body

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born. ↗

— Horace

#go #into #labour #little #mountains

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#keep #mountains #moves #praying #pushing

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#before #computers #connect #equally #lines

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#faith #i #know #mountains #moves

There are two kinds of climbers, those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest. ↗

— Alex Lowe

#climb #climbers #heart #kinds #mountains