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Quotes About Summit

But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.
~ Walter Terry
Hermann Buhl with K2. First
~ James M. Tabor
The meal had included five courses, an irony for a summit that had gathered to discuss world hunger. The
~ James Rollins
Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept.
~ James Salter
On the summit of Mount Sumeru is the heaven of the thirty-three gods ( trays-tri???? ), whose roles are also somewhat mysterious, except for Indra.
~ Akira Sadakata
If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.
~ Aurora
I knew that there would be climbers around me who would reach the summit faster. I was warned not to be hasty.
~ Arunima Sinha
I'm deeply satisfied with the decisions that were taken by Warsaw NATO Summit in 2016, where the presence of the military forces of NATO in Poland was guaranteed.
~ Andrzej Duda
The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.
~ Dwyane Wade
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
~ Edmund Hillary
I]t's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Narrow lanes climb both slopes and come together in a great ring of elm trees which encircles the flat summit. Any wind--even the slightest--draws from the height of the elms a rushing sound, multifoliate and powerful.
~ Richard Adams
Maze: "I'm alerting HQ. Stand by." *on the private comlink* Corr: "How are you Omega? Can we help? We're really concerned that you're stranded on a shabla rock surrounded by an infinite number of natives who'll cut your gett'se off when they haul you screaming from the summit.
~ Karen Traviss
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
~ Jose Marti
At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.
~ Narendra Modi
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
~ Edmund Hillary
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
~ John McPhee
It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.
~ Dan Simmons
To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.
~ Augustus William Hare
Gazing at the Sacred Peak What is this ancestor Exalt Mountain like? Endless greens of north and south meeting Where Changemaker distills divine beauty, Where yin and yang cleave dusk and dawn. Chest heaving breathes out cloud, and eyes Open dusk bird-flight home. One day soon, On the summit, peaks ranging away will be small enough to hold, all in a single glance. Tu Fu
~ David Hinton
the mountaineer's breakfast" (coffee and aspirin).
~ David J. Rothman
But there are times — my favorite climbs — when it doesn't feel as if I'm climbing. Instead, the cliff or tree or wall seems to be lifting me, higher and higher.
~ David Kudler
Humanity starts at the level of the human consciousness and makes its deliberate way to the summit, which is God Consciousness.
~ Harold Klemp
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
~ Fridtjof Nansen