Top 319 Mt Everest Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I just play under the name Mt. Eerie. I started doing that in 2003 and I've pretty much been doing that since then.
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book
I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.
I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it
I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)
The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
You should secretly give from what you have to those in need, so that you receive from God, Who sees in secret, a hundred times more, as well as life eternal in the age to come (cf. Mt. 6:4; Mk. 10:30).
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Aldous Huxley, and Bertrand Russell.
Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
Jayne Houdyshell and I - when I was 17 years old - did summer stock together at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, IL. She was the leading lady of the company, and I was an intern.
Within two years of my conversion, at a Bible conference at Mt. Hermon in California, I dedicated my life to the Lord for full-time service. And since then, I have been joyfully following in that path that He has led me on.
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.
I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.
Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
On Mount Everest it feels as if you are in the womb, but on K2 you are always out on the edge.
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
Mt. Rushmore was conceived in 1923 in a desperate attempt to draw tourist dollars to a state that had been rushed into the Union to protect Republican political dominance and could not manage to achieve economic stability.
I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.
People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do you do?
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.
I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.
In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14).
I wanted to dissolve the boundary between the outside world and the world of the relationships. Those events, with exception of the Mt. Saint Helens explosion, were happening in the real time of the book, as I was writing.
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.
Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.
Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.
Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks.
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits.
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds.
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.
In many people's minds, Everest has lost her crown. She has become a mountain synonymous with death, exploitation and pollution.
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
Anybody who has enough information about what's going on in the bitcoin world, you would not buy your bitcoins on Mt. Gox.
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
