I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.
Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.
[This kind of strange mythology about me. ] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.
If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don't have any other instruction.
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.
When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.
I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.
A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.
Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.
If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.
Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.