Mt. Rushmore from the Canadian Side

Scenery is fine but human nature is finer. - John Keats

He who does not look ahead remains behind. - Spanish Proverb

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Oh the things you can find, if you don't stay behind! - Dr. Seuss

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. - Maori Proverb

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting. - W.S. Gilbert

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C S Lewis

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. - Stephanie Piro

It's not like we came down from Mount Sinai with the tabloids. - Ron Meyer

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. - E.W. Howe

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. - Neil Diamond

Somewhere, behind space and time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime. - Rupert Brooke

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. - Flemish Proverb

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. - Dutch Proverb

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - Theodore Roethke

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Frank Kafka

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. - Mac McCleary

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you. - Adrienne Clarkson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Henry David Thoreau

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians, except for the occasional mountain lion steak. - Ted Nugent

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

There are only 3 true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing. All the rest are games. - Ernest Hemingway

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind. - Joel Osteen

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. - Arlene Blum

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. - G K Chesterton

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times. - Mark Twain

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. - Louise Nurding

Behind every question is a questioner. And behind every questioner is a network of assumptions, hurts, struggles, and often prejudices. - Ravi Zacharias

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. - Stanisław Lem

As long as a person doesn't admit he's defeated, he is not defeated - he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting. - Darrell Royal

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. - Criss Jami

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Behind my smile is a broken heart; behind my laugh I'm falling apart; behind my eyes are tears at night; behind my body is a soul trying to fight. - Unknown