Mountaintop Quotes
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You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?
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More Mountaintop Quotes
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
pierre trudeau— Speech (13 December 1980), quoted in It's great up north" by Henry Porter in The Observer (20 November 2005)
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
george f. kennan— On trying to understand Soviet policies, as quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! ... In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone we all dwell in a house of one room the world with the firmament for its roof and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.
john muir— 18 July 1890, page 321
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
Diane Paulus— American theater director
You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?
— As translated in Lust for Enlightenment : Buddhism and Sex (1990) by John Stevens, p. 117
