Mountainous Quotes 

Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great mountainous sports girl, Whizzing them over the net, full of the strength of five: That old Malvernian brother, you zephyr and khaki shorts girl, Although he's playing for Woking, Betjeman Can't stand up to your wonderful backhand drive.
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The first Greek-speaking people in the southern Balkan Peninsula arrived in Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epirus sometime after 2600 B.C. and developed, probably due to the extreme mountainous nature of the country, their several different dialects.


— David Noel Freedman, "The Anchor Bible Dictionary", Doubleday, 1992, p. 1093

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Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

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— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 3, line 124.

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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan .


— Iqbal Z. Quadir, in Rockets to Markets

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The first Greek-speaking people in the southern Balkan Peninsula arrived in Macedonia, Thessaly, and Epirus sometime after 2600 B.C. and developed, probably due to the extreme mountainous nature of the country, their several different dialects.


— The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992) p. 1093.

Tags: first, Greekspeaking, people, southern, Balkan, Peninsula, arrived, Macedonia, Thessaly

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An example of this way of thinking is an exchange that took place when someone told Goethe that he admired him for his genius, towering over German intellectual life like a gigantic mountain, to which Goethe replied that "great mountains are found only in mountainous landscapes." The traditional history of art is concerned exclusively which such mountain peaks, and often, as Goethe critically pointed out, they are not even seen in relation to each other.

asger jorn

— Jorn's remarks on the publication of the book Thidrek of Folk Art (1948)

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