Fourteener Quotes

#1. When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home.

Aron Ralston

#2. Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family ... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

Wayne Dyer

#4. No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

William A. Henry III

#5. Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Terry Brooks

#6. The young always think they're invincible, right until the moment they learn otherwise. Usually, the hard way

Melissa Grey

#7. Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

John Legend

#8. My mom is one of those people that you feel honored to meet. And no matter who you are, you fall in love with her because she is spiritual, she's inspiring, she's strong, she's funny, she's creative, she's talented ... she's everything that I want to be.

Beyonce Knowles

#9. I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

A.R. Rahman

#10. It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp ... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#11. The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

Ed Stoppard

#12. Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.

Charles James

#13. I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky ...

Billy Collins

#14. I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Steve Irwin