Battle Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or mountain:

    “What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through the always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, “Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.””
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)