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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

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.

Harold B. Melchart

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

Martin Luther King Jr.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

Wilma Rudolph

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Confucius

I felt like I was thrown down a mountain in a trash can.

Vonetta Flowers

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

This mountain range is big enough and complex enough to actually be a generator of new species. It's actually producing new diversity.

Bruce Beehler

All in all, this helps to secure the long-term financial stability of the gas and electric utilities in Eagle Mountain.

Chris Hillman

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas W. Higginson

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

Richard Nelson

He dug himself into a hole with the special election. He's out of the hole now. He's not back on top of the mountain, but he's out of the hole.

Tim Hodson

I wanted big landscapes and mountains and things and it ends up the cover doesn't have a mountain it.

Tracy Byrd

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Peter Morris

To motivate man is to move a mountain!

Gillis Triplett

She saw Task Force Green Mountain in Kuwait; she saw Task Force Catamount in Afghanistan. She has consistently done everything she can to check on the soldiers physically and shake their hands.

Lt. Veronica Saffo

One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.

Diana Ossana

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Dean Inge

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

Jerry Garcia

There comes a point when the king comes down off the mountain.

Jeff Daniels

It started about 1987 with the Yucca Mountain study. I've been asking for it for 15 years.

Aaron Williams

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

Ric Flair

This race should give us some confidence, ... We know we can run with them (Mountain View). When we are at full-strength, we'll be right in the mix.

Justin Taylor

We'd have to convert our hole into a mountain, which would require higher capital costs over the next five years.

Luke Serpa

I hope when the committee takes a look at teams that it's not just comparing two Mountain West Conference teams. I hope we're being compared to anyone else in the country.

Joe Legerski

There is excitement in the air, ... We're not going to be a big draw like the over-the-mountain schools are. But the crowds have been supportive.

Tim Sanders

She just reminds you that you can go over that mountain and reach your goal.

Kelly Buckley

The jewel emerged from the water, when the mountain of gold was used to churn it.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The first thing that came of our mouth was: Show us the mountain so we can start climbing.

Matt Elliott

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

We've probably looked into this as closely as anyone has. I think what we would say is that there is no credible evidence right now of a mountain lion population in Pennsylvania.

Mark Dowling

It's not going to end the mountain pine beetle epidemic by any means.

Rick Newton

It's a great day for sport and fair play and equity in the Olympic Games. We frankly climbed a mountain here, and lo and behold we reached the top.

Michael Chambers

It's quite a large fire on the side of the mountain facing the dock area.

Piet Smith

If you're going to drive anyway, you might as well drive to the lifts that are going to take you up the mountain.

Chuck Madison

Fred Jennings was the lookout on Pitcher Mountain. He called it in at 3:20 in the afternoon.

Charlie Strickland

You know what? The No. 1 wish for Grouse Mountain this Christmas is more snow.

Chris Dagenais

We were really happy to get out here to run. We liked the cool mountain air. The only thing we didn't like was getting up at 4:30 to make it.

Tim Rice

Now we have a big mountain to climb, and the road is going to be tough.

Sheldon Souray

This is a big milestone for Mountain View. The importance of this match in our minds was huge.

Brian Hanna

Last game, against Battle Mountain (JV) we came out and were running the ball a lot, and we wanted to do that, but it didn't work out.

Oliver Ristow

We're all shaken by this. Anyone who has skied Mammoth Mountain has skied right by this.

Bob Kittle

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Jacques Lipchitz

We have tons of terrain back there that will really open up the mountain.

Nicole Klay

We make them feel welcome, ... Here, they have a mountain they can call their own.

Michael Goss

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther.

Lynn Sadler

We're confident that we got the right mountain lion.

Tyler Baskfield

I thought everyone was going to die on the mountain. I didn't think that anyone could make it out.

Jessica Post

It?s a lot more careful and meticulous than mountain biking.

Chris Wonderly

We've been very effective at pushing them all up and down and around Smith Mountain Lake for almost the last 15 years.

Martin Lowney

The mountain lion season is officially closed as of Sunday afternoon.

Randy Kreil

The mountain got too steep to climb.

Matt Bennett

We were going 5 mph up a mountain.

Ross Rasmussen

It is like a mountain has fallen.

Marlin Fitzwater

If you are a deer, they are aggressive, but we are something that they don't want or need. But even if you have never seen a mountain lion, there is probably a chance that a mountain lion has seen you.

Troy Swauger

They are cutting the mountain cattlemen out, they are always closing more of the timber industry down. There is a lot of hypocrisy in what they are doing here.

Bob Richardson

We're basically keeping up with the bed base. If we have the people here, we have to fit them on the mountain.

Nicole Klay

It's with a tremendous amount of sadness and regret that I announce this morning we've lost another one of our great Green Mountain Boys.

Martha Rainville

It isn't necessary to Mt. Hood Meadows. It's already the biggest ski area on the mountain. The demands are growing, but the mountain is not growing, and we have to learn to live with limits.

Kate Mccarthy

The problem for bike riders, joggers and hikers in the wilderness is that the mountain lion has its own habitat.

Pat Mcdonnell

A glassy mountain range of exposed offices; on a clear day you can look through the windows and see as many as 6,000 coffee breaks at once.

Frederic Morton

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Local folks told us they hadn't seen fire on that mountain in 50 years.

Jim Burton

It was so smoky. I was a little freaked out because we were on the top of that mountain, and we could see the smoke from all the fires.

Kelly Stone

It is amazing how the mountain just has gotten busier.

Daryl Miller

That team knocked us off the mountain last year in the NFC Championship Game. Ever since the schedule came out we've been anticipating this game. And the city has been very excited about this game.

Keith Brooking

It's amazing. They make it look so easy as they climb up the side of the mountain. Sometimes they have their feet above their heads.

Katie Walsh

Within a mere two weeks, three at most, we are planning to establish full control of the mountain areas of Chechnya.

Viktor Kazantsev

Being an underdog by one point or 50, it doesn't matter. I'm glad we are an underdog. Underdogs have more that they can achieve. They have more enjoyment if they're able to climb to the mountain top.

Jerry Glanville

That's snowboarding. We found some powder, we came down the mountain, she won gold, I won silver.

Gretchen Bleiler

In this group, not many are what I would call locals, so they have been fascinated with local history, ... Cold Mountain.

Clyde Edgerton

I really didn't they were going to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Pat Boyd

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

Chinese Proverbs

Coach Donahue's one of the gurus in the state. Each time we play them, it's going to be a hard-fought battle. Desert Mountain has really come on.

Troy Wiese

Liquid rock from inside the Earth -- magma -- had been trying to get out. It found a mountain in the way and actually started pushing up and breaking that mountain apart, 5 feet a day.

Mike Byers

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

David Allan Coe

We have moose around town as well as bear, elk and mountain lions, but we don't have moose attacks. It was a freak thing.

Gene Stover

On their first date, they drove to the top of Lookout Mountain. For years she kept the red hat she wore on that date.

Kathy Hendricks

I started to use mountain climbing as a metaphor for what life with MS is like. We can't always do what we want when we want. When conditions mandate, we take a little longer, try a little harder and dig a little deeper.

Wendy Booker

When you heard that a mountain was moved, believe it; but when you hear that someone changed his character do not believe it.

Arabian Proverb

It hurt us in the third quarter when they got three goals and we didn't get any, and then instead of just being down by two or three, now we're down 7-2. You go into the fourth quarter and it seems like a bigger mountain to have to climb.

Tom Minard

You had to be a mountain goat to climb into where they were found.

Frank Morris

One trip through a mountain bog with an ATV can be devastating to certain habitats and wildlife associated with it.

Brandon Walker

We really do not have many rental units in Mountain Home, ... The ones we have are around the lakes.

Dan Hall

We want to highlight everything that is a part of the mountain culture - from culture, to environment, to adrenaline, to something humorous and quirky - and something to cater to the Fort Collins community.

Rodney Ley

All that has happened is Apple's patent has received final rejection, and that is a non-event. This is really making a mountain out of a molehill.

Roger Cook

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way.

Dr. Seuss

Be honest with each other. Don't wait until after the marriage to surprise the other partner with a mountain of debt.

Sam Goller

Instead, it will be an upscale mountain lodge, a contemporary legacy of the great mountain lodges originally built in the West at the turn of the 20th century.

Mark Hornberger

They're very important games. We need to win all four of them so that we can keep ourselves in the Mountain West Conference race.

Kyle Magnusson

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 no worry about what I can do during the mountain stages.

Alejandro Valverde

We have a very tall mountain to climb.

Mike Zafirovski

The greatest rates of appreciation have been in the Rocky Mountain states, where job growth has been exceptional.

John Tuccillo

You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain.

My Morning Jacket

Vail Mountain is our biggest rival, but you can't really overlook anybody.

Kaley Hagerman

It just hit me like a ton of bricks because I had a big mountain fall in the '70s and they said I wouldn't live. It really, really affected me and I said, 'I've just got to go there and meet the family.

Hank Williams Jr.

I'll be glad when we're down across the mountain range. That's usually the toughest part.

Paul Gebhardt

I went outside and took a look and I could see it on top of the mountain.

Terry Wallace

Big challenge, a heck of a mountain to climb.

James Pinkney

They're all tough, each kind of loss you get, but if it's a one- or two-point game, you can go back through film and say you should have done this or that. But the bottom line is Mountain View played better than us. We didn't come out and get after it like we had before. We made a good comeback, but it was too late.

Bobby Ervin

Mountain Creek is not financially liable for the conduct of our patrons.

Shannon Mcsweeney

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thomas Campbell

The bodies of the victims have been taken down from the mountain top and transported to Slovakia.

Tibor Dobson

Fletcher didn't have to be talked into doing what he did for Pine Mountain, ... He did it because it was the right thing to do.

Steve Lawson

It is going to be a very dangerous situation. We could easily see 15 inches of rain in some mountain areas, and that could cause flash floods and mudslides.

Stacy Stewart

There is a strong cold front dropping in. And Red Mountain Pass and Ouray may see as much as 4 to 8 inches, but I don't expect to see anything from Red Mountain to the state line.

Jeff Colton

A female and her two kittens are now staying almost exclusively in the Mountain Village area.

Tanya Shenk

I've always called my music old time mountain music or old time country music. I've never really called my music bluegrass.

Ralph Stanley

Mountain beyond Mountains….

Paul Farmer

You work for the same goals in sports and life, and sometimes you don't win. But you can learn that you can go through some deep valleys and return to the mountain top.

Van Mccloud

The girls have high hopes that they can make it to Stone Mountain. This (No. 1) doubles position is going to be the key to going deep in state.

Jan Steffan

He was just an unbelievable competitor. He had a heart as big as a mountain.

Rodney Woods

Lord knows marriage between two people is difficult as it is, but these folks have a mountain to climb to be together. But that's what they want to do.

Dan Sammons

You give a team five runs in an inning — well, we didn't give them to (Mountain Crest). We gave them a couple of runs, some runners on base and they came up with big hits.

Shane Jones

Mountain View normally doesn't make mistakes like that, but when they did I thought our guys did a good job getting the runs in.

Jared Ingersol

It's critical to know whether the law's been broken at Yucca Mountain.

Bob Loux

He's no longer out there on a mountain alone.

Leane Ross

When you are on top of the mountain everyone wants to knock you off. I'd rather be second and chasing after first guys too.

Rich Gordon

It's typical mountain lion behavior after an attack like that. They're pretty curious to come back and see if they killed their prey.

Tyler Baskfield

It was one of the best days Battle Mountain cross country has ever had.

Rob Parish

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Brenda Ueland

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

Robert Motherwell

Drew for one is not only good in races, but he's good all over the mountain. He's enthusiastic and versatile.

Tom Kelley

We saw 12 rattlesnakes in one week, including one in the house. I can handle mountain lions and bears, but I don't like rattlers.

Marlene Sheridan

Pretty much everywhere in Steamboat is very conducive to bear interaction because there's lots of mountain brush habitat where they find their common food sources.

Libbie Miller

You're looking at about 80 tons, but for organic beef that's a mountain of meat. It's a beginning.

Flavio Saldanha

And now, to finish on the mountain top this year makes this championship really special.

Wade Vickery

I certainly believe the Weavers were utterly innocent, were a threat to nobody, and if you can't believe crazy things on top of a mountain in Idaho, where can you believe crazy things?

Jon Ronson

Rescuers are scared because they can still hear the mountain rumbling.

Maria Lim

I don't know how much lower someone can go than to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Nancy Hunter

I think it is safe to say that 'Soul Mountain' is one of the most remarkable creations of modern literature, not only in Chinese.

Horace Engdahl

There are some days I'm looking at a kid eating a bag of chips, drinking a Mountain Dew at 7 o'clock in the morning.

Charles Peacock

We showed an ad with a guy mountain biking and holding a conference call. The goal is to make it look cool and stylish and all that.

Scott Martin

We've got two different emotions. One, we're very happy he's not dead or injured on the mountain. Two, it's frustrating. He made a set of plans he didn't follow through with. ... I mean why even bother making plans if you're not going to follow through?

Mike Schmitt

I have not just a mountain of data, perhaps a mountain range of data.

Peter Davenport

You can climb a mountain or jump out of a plane but can never tame a hurricane or tornado - that's for sure. It's one of the last frontiers that no one will ever conquer.

Roger Hill

Almost everyone knows Taliesin West. Almost no one knows the first camp that gave form to Taliesin West and its form and its character was on Mountain Park Ranch.

Vernon Swaback

I expect him to be the best defensive tackle in the Mountain West Conference.

Kyle Whittingham

It's the first species that we've had that really forced a broad-scale re-examination of the high mountain forests.

Gary Patton

I certainly believe (Klein) is completely and totally biased about Yucca Mountain.

Bob Loux

I think of it like, if I am surviving in the wild, how do I get around? Like a mountain lion, jumping rock to rock.

Matt Perry

So all the stuff on Aspen Mountain fell off the list.

Cindy Dean

This movie takes a grain of truth and turns into a mountain of apocalypse.

Patrick Michaels

My most important agenda is drinking water for Crawford County. The Pine Mountain Dam, we all feel it, is the best source of water for all of us.

Mike Workman

Basically, after two-and-a-half days on the mountain, it's paid for.

Rachael Woods

We've been to the top of the mountain, and as long as we were up there, last year was tough to take.

Tom Drohner

There is a mountain of reasonable doubt in this case.

Ashraf Nubani

We climbed the mountain, but we didn't get all the way to the top. We know next year what we have to do to get back here and go further.

Jajuan Smith

Any place a mountain bike can go, a mountain unicycle can go.

John Drummond

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Al Neuharth

It's an amazing place. When you're on the lake, you feel like the mountain is right on top of you.

Sam Hodder

They take into consideration that it should not be easy to name a mountain for all eternity.

Terry Cunningham

If people want to walk up there and put memorials, that has a place, if it's important to them. But it has to be managed, otherwise some people would build enormous edifices on the mountain.

Rob Smith

Mountain lions, I do not believe, have a healthy fear of man because they are not hunted.

Pat Mcdonnell

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.

Levi Leipheimer

A lot of that is luck. A lot of that is a very focused effort on the part of our employees, on the part of our ski patrol, our yellow jackets, mountain management to elevate awareness and provide this education.

Chuck Tolton

Someone said if you want to get faster at mountain biking, get into road biking to build your stamina up. So I built my first road bike.

Ron Hight

I've been training a lot in Colorado, and I've actually been riding a ton on the mountain bike. I've been climbing up the steepest things I could possibly find in Durango, which is not hard to do. It's good training because it's really hard on the arms.

Chris Wherry

I probably wouldn't come to the games, but I'm not so sure. It's still football and it's still fun to support them because they are the future of Mountain Pointe football.

Anthony Mancuso

Durango has a lot of deer and a lot of good mountain lion habitat, so there are mountain lions in the area.

Patt Dorsey

We live on 18 acres near Stone Mountain, and she's the mother of everything on our land. If the cats catch a squirrel, she'll take it away and let it go.

Bill Hunt

As long as any memorial put on the mountain is just a plaque or a stone with a name on it, I can't see any problem with that.

Paul Wright

We think we can win every game, and that gives you a great deal of confidence. Everybody on the team has confidence right now. We're high on the mountain and everything's going well. We're doing everything we have to do to win the game.

Marcus Slaughter

We were concerned that he seemed to be listening more to them (developers) then his constituents and us. He did say Mountain Springs was a great place to put a subdivision.

Dave Bonnot

Today, it appears there may be as many as 100 lawyers and legal assistants working at your expense to defend the president against a mountain of charges and allegations about his personal behavior.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

If you had too many elk, deer and mountain goats in a given unit, they eat the vegetation and they would actually destroy their own habitat if we allowed them to grow without check.

Craig Mclaughlin

A lot of people don't understand that mountain lions are hunted in the West, and they are hunted for fun.

Lynn Sadler

Recent history suggests they're in. When you win the championship of a top-10 RPI conference like the Mountain West, you're in.

Joe Lunardi

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

Tony Kennedy

If you put deer and (ground) cover together, it's possible that mountain lions could be there. Boulder is bordered by mountain-lion habitat, and that's going to happen from time to time.

Tyler Baskfield

Let's beat Army first, then take on the Mountain West for a fantastic finish to a historic season.

Chet Gladchuk

All of that development scattered across the landscape _ we focused on bringing it to Rockwood and Greenville and Big Moose Mountain.

Cathy Johnson

I can't have the mountain, but at least I've got the stream here.

Juanita Longwell

(Colorado ski areas) have really pampered the people on the mountain. On the slopes, we have held their hand and been great at taking care of them.

Ludwig Kurz

We gave it to the Mountain Home Volunteer Fire Department and told them to do whatever they want to do with it.

Robert Cook

Baker Mountain is one of the few wild, trail-less mountains. Just take a map and a compass, you won't find anyone.

Bob Leroy

But it doesn't mean the Athens Games is an insurmountable mountain for us. You can wait and see.

Liu Jingmin

Occasionally a group of people on campus will meet to go rock climbing, backpacking or mountain biking. I like to see the sites.

Larry Bortner

You could saw off both of her arms, and she would still want to compete. She is just that kind of athlete. There is no mountain that's too high for her. She will come out and give everything she has.

Michael Walker

We had them watch the 32-0 team (in '91). We're getting old players to come back. They're all saying that the Mountain is back.

David Grace

Yucca Mountain is always big.

Jack Finn

This is only our fifth year of existence, but we are not far from the top of the mountain. The kids just have to keep working hard.

Jeff Beavers

We'll provide Mountain West Conference content in every way possible.

Tim Pernetti

The science aspect of mountain-top removal overshadows everything.

Nick Smith

I was into mountain bikes and breaking them all the time. He was my bicycle counselor. He was like the priest: the bicycle priest.

Tom Funk

Yucca Mountain is such a mistake. There needs to be more research done on the alternatives.

Kevin Kamps

I've never been tempted myself. It's really just something that's got to grab you. I'm more of a mountain boy than an ice slider.

Colin Jackson

After four days of community service, you kind of get stuck on it. I wanted to hike the mountain but I enjoy the community service.

Rebecca Brown

I think you all are making a mountain out of a molehill. I don't know there was anything she said that was not the truth.

Rep. Richard Chalk

Every mountain has its unique characteristics. Until you know what you're looking for you can't begin to choose.

Bruce Rosard

I will give our kids credit for cutting the gap to eight. It was a great run, but unfortunately we didn't guard Mr. Davis. Sometime when you climb the mountain you lose your legs, and I think that's what happened to us.

Dave Wessel

We enjoyed it, even though they beat the snot out of us. That Battle Mountain team hits hard, but they are a fun team to play against.

Rob Crawford

The troops pulled out because big boulders are cascading down the mountain.

Colonel Raul Farnacio

Lank-Bag, man mountain, solid.

Rob Jones

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Theodore Roethke

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Rodan Of Alexandria

The Central Mountain tournament was much stronger than it's been in the past. And we got some kids banged up.

Vince Testa

We can't escape what we do as a product of culture. We are a cultural being; we can't hunt as a bear or a mountain lion does. The need is no longer present.

Paul Moriarty

It's all about momentum. Mountain Pointe is playing its best baseball right now. We know it and they know it.

Stan Luketich