Mountains Rise

Famous quotes containing the words mountains rise, mountains and/or rise:

    “Rocks crumble, make new forms,
    oceans move the continents,
    mountains rise up and down like ghosts
    yet all is natural, all is change.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “It is the sorrow; shall it melt? Ah, water
    Would gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys
    And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “I held it truth, with him who sings
    To one clear harp in diverse tones,
    That men may rise on stepping-stones
    Of their dead selves to higher things.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)