Norgay Quotes

#1. We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

Sara Sheridan

#2. 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

#3. I needed to go ... the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.

Tenzing Norgay

#4. It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.

Tenzing Norgay

#5. I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Isadora Duncan

#6. the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#7. None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Benjamin Whichcote

#8. In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#9. If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

Tenzing Norgay

#10. If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

Tenzing Norgay

#11. I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.

Tenzing Norgay

#12. To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

Tenzing Norgay

#13. I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.

May-Britt Moser

#14. Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented.

Saul Bellow

#15. He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk to me," said Jace.
"No," said Clary. "I want to eat. I'm starving.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Though my father was a sirdar, he always carried loads. It is hard for someone who is walking unburdened to generate in others an enthusiasm for work.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#17. Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.

Brad Jensen