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Quotes About Summit

If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.
~ Dolly Parton
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.
~ Reinhold Messner
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
~ Jon Krakauer
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
~ Victor Hugo
You who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. Jeremiah 49:16
~ Beth Moore
It stands on a slight eminence
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Coming back from the G20 summit, Trump was editing an upcoming speech with Porter. Scribbling his thoughts in neat, clean penmanship, the president wrote, "TRADE IS BAD." Though he never said it in a speech, he had finally found the summarizing phrase and truest expression of his protectionism, isolationism and fervent American nationalism.
~ Bob Woodward
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation.
~ Hassanal Bolkiah
In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.
~ Terry Teachout
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I should say the summit of contemporary university knowledge in two fields, mathematics and the humanities. That's no joke!
~ Boris Pasternak
three Nonees high.
~ Tanya Huff
It is important to remember that I am not in the G-8; I am just an invited guest.
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.
~ Hemingway Ernest
I drove down to Leh with my brother and from there, we had a two-day trek till the base camp of Stok Kangri. After a day's layover to acclimatize ourselves and a partial attempt to climb the peak, we attempted the final climb a day later.
~ Abhinav Shukla
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
~ Carol Bellamy
I study her visage, the fluted snow fields and couloirs of ice scoured by avalanches. Horizontal bands of rock curve downward, as if bearing the weight of the sky. Her summit is like a fulcrum on which the heavens lean, balancing the setting sun and rising moon.
~ Stephen Alter
Everything is made of words, and the words had done their job. I could even say they had done it well. They had risen in a confusing swarm and spun around in spirals, ever higher, colliding and separating, golden insects, messengers of friendship and knowledge, higher, higher, into that region of the sky where the day turns into night and reality into dreams, regal words on their nuptial flight, always higher, until their marriage is finally consummated at the summit of the world.
~ César Aira
Today majesty is the length from where I stand to the summit of the mountain we are climbing. This mountain has majesty and hold its own authority above all others.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
For me the Everest solo was the icing on the cake of my climbs: the highest mountain in the world, during a monsoon, and as far as possible even on a new route, of course without oxygen.
~ Reinhold Messner