"A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit."

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Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Waltons" ("The Hunt", 1972), www.imdb.com. (1971–1981).

Earl Hamner, Jr.

#Sky Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?”
“By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.”
“I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.”
“The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.”
“If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.”

Source : Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Thomas Colchie, Mark Strand (1986). “Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems”, New York : Random House
“Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.”

Source : Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.53, Charisma Media
“Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.”
“I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman”

Source : "Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement". Book by Feargal Cochrane, 1997.

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