Greg Mortenson Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

  Greg Mortenson

  Moving, Mountain, Our Society

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.76, Penguin

• A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

  Greg Mortenson

  Wise, School, Home

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.231, Penguin

• I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

  Greg Mortenson

  Mountain, World, Pakistan

  "Humanitarian Greg Mortenson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 11, 2009.

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