Mountains Rise

Famous quotes containing the words mountains and/or rise:

“It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)