I love American ski resorts because they’re open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They’re not snobby and you can have fun all day long on the most excellent mountains. – John Lydon
The Small Business ‘common app’ would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs – not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork. – Kay Hagan
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. – Kate Adie
I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more. – Katarina Witt
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado. – Kip Thorne
The original version of ‘The White Mountains’ was probably just about worth publishing. – John Christopher
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. – Meriwether Lewis
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government. – Mitt Romney
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are. – Maya Angelou
I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado. – Joe Lando
I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it’s a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like. – Jennifer Fallon
From the industry’s point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what’s left of the local streams and aquifers. It’s that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins. – Jeff Goodell
Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. – Katherine Dunham
There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people’s minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature. – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. – Luke Evans
I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d’ knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn’t booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains. – Kevin Whately
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. – Kate Seredy
The north-south line of ‘the mountains,’ meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier. – Jonathan Raban
As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you’re two feet, so it’s impressive. – Kip Thorne
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state. – Larry Hogan
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri. – Meriwether Lewis
I was a very unpredictable child. I’d pack a bag and go off and do a hike in the mountains for 10 days. – Kiesza
A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time. – Mencius