Quotes About Mountaineers

#1. Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#2. Rincewind had been generally reckoned by his tutors to be a natural wizard in the same way that fish are natural mountaineers.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

George Leigh Mallory

#4. The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral.

Victor Hugo

#5. Mountaineers, especially when alone, sometimes have very vivid hallucinations [...]. So it is interesting that the revelations received by the leaders of the world's three main religions were preceded by a period of isolation in the mountains.

Dick Swaab

#6. In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

John Muir

#7. The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.

Alan Hinkes

#8. There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men.

Hilaire Belloc

#9. I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Charles Lamb

#10. Mountaineers know that all mountains are in a constant state of collapse - their verticality being inescapably and inevitably worn down every moment by wind, water, weather, and gravity - but

Dan Simmons

#11. Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed to look enticing and glamorous at night. They obscure one of a woman's most erogenous zones, the nape of her neck. I suppose they're good if you want to keep men away.

Letitia Baldrige

#12. Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.

Anatoli Boukreev

#13. The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.

Lisa Morgan

#14. We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

Galen Rowell

#15. Every wedding anniversary, we behave like mountaineers,/and pretend to have conquered distance.

Sumana Roy

#16. All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

James Thurber

#17. When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle.
"Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

Cynthia Voigt

#18. Stop looking for me. I'm not missing; I do not want to be found. I wish to remain vanishing. I don't want to go home.

Emily St. John Mandel

#19. The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

Bernie Sanders

#20. Cold, still, lookin a little uncomfortable in death as if they weren't quite used to it yet.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#21. Psychologists have done tests about how humans approach problem solving and found that we are somehow preprogrammed to look for confirmation and not for disconfirmation.

Steven Drobny

#22. A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Jon Meacham

#23. You are a stakeholder in the political process, and your influence will be proportional to your level of involvement in that process.

Mountaineers

#24. Spent half of my life doing the wrong things, the wrong way. Plan to spent the rest half doing again the same wrong things, but the right way.

John C. Yiannoudis

#25. We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they need.

Allyson Schwartz

#26. My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

Michelle Obama

#27. She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

James Ellroy