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Quotes About Altitude

Now that the bad weather had come, we could leave Paris for a while for a place where this rain would be snow coming down through the pines and covering the road and the high hillsides and at an altitude where we would hear it creak as we walked home at night. Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and where we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. That was where we could go.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngàje Ngài," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so he might breathe.
~ Anita Desai
how very small London was once you reached a certain altitude; once you had left behind those who could not easily secure tables at the best restaurants and clubs. 'Couldn't
~ Robert Galbraith
Which because of the geometric complexities of high altitude flight meant we were likely aiming some ways south. A Great Circle route. Weird on a flat paper map, but just right for a spherical planet. We
~ Lee Child
Jumping from a high altitude required oxygen. Jumping at night required night-vision goggles. Jumping at all required either nerves of steel or the brain of a hamster. Her nerves definitely weren't steel, so Jina figured her brain was rodentlike.
~ Linda Howard
You hear a lot from the other fighters that have fought in Denver, you see some of the fighters are just gassing out.
~ Travis Browne
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
~ Edmund Hillary
Your attitude determines your altitude. Aim high and soar with a positive outlook.
~ Ed Mylett
At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.
~ Anonymous
To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
~ James Dickey
I was lucky enough to fly in Concorde, and you get up to 65,000 feet, and I could see the curvature of the Earth.
~ Phillip Schofield
The hardest climb for me was Kangchenjunga, at 28,169 feet the world's third-highest mountain. The first thing that made this summit difficult was the speed that I climbed and summited two 8,000-er's, back-to-back.
~ Nirmal Purja
climb high, sleep low
~ Roland Smith
An Attitude of Gratitude Delivers To You Altitude of Beatitudes.
~ Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sinceramente, no siento miedo cuando estoy en las montañas. Por el contrario… siento cómo mis hombros se yerguen, se ensanchan; como los pájaros cuando extienden las alas, disfruto la libertad y la altitud. Sólo cuando vuelvo a la vida del llano siento el peso del mundo sobre mis hombros
~ Anatoli Boukreev
Mount Everest!
~ Andy Griffiths
ALTIVOLANT  (ALTI'VOLANT)   adj.[altivolans, Lat. from altus and volo.] High flying.Dict.  
~ Samuel Johnson
Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.
~ William Shakespeare
Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.
~ Zig Ziglar
Attitude and not the Aptitude decide the Altitude you reach in life.
~ Zig Ziglar
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
~ Rob Dyrdek
The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet.
~ John M. Grunsfeld