Quotes About Sir Edmund Hillary

#1. I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary

Greg Mortenson

#2. Sir Edmund Hillary, Everest's first conqueror, once said that the mountains gave him strength. I'd never really understood this until now. But it was intoxicating.
Something deep inside me knew that I could do this.

Bear Grylls

#3. Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#4. 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

#5. People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Ed Begley Jr.

#6. Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#7. Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it.

Russell Eric Dobda

#8. There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#9. Good God, what happened to ye?" Shelton dropped the bucket of water he was carrying, unmindful that it spilled across the barn floor.
"I fell." Dougal picked up a brush and began to groom Poseidon.
Shelton gave a silent whistle. "Fell into what? A hammer?"
"Something like that.

Karen Hawkins

#10. Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Edmund Hillary

#11. He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Jeffrey Rasley

#12. I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.

Walter Isaacson

#13. Enemies are just friends in reverse.

Gary Busey

#14. If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

Afrojack

#15. Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Terry Goodkind