Cross Country Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words cross, country and/or mountain:

    “Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
    —Indian proverb, quoted in Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, ch. 30, “From the Notebooks” (1987)

    “A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.”
    —German proverb.

    “Come live with me and be my Love,
    And we will all the pleasures prove
    That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
    Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

    And we will sit upon the rocks,
    And see the shepherds feed their flocks
    By shallow rivers, to whose falls
    Melodious birds sing madrigals.”
    —Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)