Maurice Herzog Quotes

#1. The mountains were there and so was I.

Maurice Herzog

#2. In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,

Maurice Herzog

#3. What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family is both functional and dysfunctional.

Elin Hilderbrand

#4. I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Katharine Hepburn

#5. The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

James A. Baldwin

#6. When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

Win Butler

#7. 'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

Maurice Herzog

#8. Patience comes to those who wait.

Shannon Wheeler

#9. Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

Maurice Herzog

#10. I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.

Chris Evans

#11. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Maurice Herzog

#12. For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.

Maurice Herzog