The Fairies
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men.
King Martin Luther 1929-1968
(day before assassination)
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 ... So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Service Robert 1874-1958
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Tagore Sir Rabindranath 1861-1941
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
Berlin Irving 1888-1989
„God Bless America"
God Bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
The mountains look on Marathon -
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... ‘Sir James Mackintosh'
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
Miller H.T. 1873-1948
Give us men to match our mountains,
Give us men to match our plains:
Men with empires in their purpose
And new eras in their brains.
Ruskin John 1819-1900
Modern Painters
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
Saphir Morty
Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.