Summit Quotes - Page 5

• It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Plato, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

  Myrtle Reed

  Age, Needs, Hills

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

  Kevin Watkins

  Support, Needs, Levels

  6 Copy quote

• Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

  Guy Finley

  Secret, Path, Moments

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jul 03, 2016

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Nature, Travel, Energy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Nature, Travel, Tired

  21 Copy quote

• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19

  Greg Mortenson

  Long, Mentor, Valleys

  4 Copy quote

• After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.

  Rafael Correa

  Reflection, Decision, President

  26 Copy quote

• The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Two, World, Centre

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

  John Constable

  Writing, Ambition, Thinking

  John Constable (1964). “Correspondence”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you get to the summit and you push the watch, first you try to breath a little bit and get some oxygen in your lungs. When I saw this time I was like, 'Ah, that's not possible.' Yeah...that was a good moment.

  Ueli Steck

  Oxygen, Trying, Watches

  30 Copy quote

• 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

  Morning, May, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  Edmund Hillary

  Couple, Guides, Mountaineering

  "Sir Edmund Hillary: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?

  Thomas Hood

  Mother, Art, Moon

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

  Heinrich Heine

  Light, Air, Mountain

  Henry Baruch Sachs, Heinrich Heine (1916). “Heine in America”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Thinking, Way, Mega

  4 Copy quote

• The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.

  Paul McCartney

  Choices, Empowering, Important

  8 Copy quote

• I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

  John H. Johnson

  Believe, People, Dare

  16 Copy quote

• Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Trying

  Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 1936.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.

  Jackie Huggins

  Leadership, Country, Ideas

  18 Copy quote

• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Men, Hiking

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

  Sylvia Plath

  Knives, Sky, White

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.52, Hamilton Books

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Responsibility, Cold

  Barbara Taylor Bradford (1993). “A Woman of Substance: Act of Will”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

  Thales

  Ocean, Future, Reality

  106 Copy quote