Quotes About The Andes

#1. I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.

Laura Resau

#2. In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#4. When coming in to land at Santiago, Chile, I saw the area between the city and the Andes mountains was smoking with rubbish dumps. While exploring the dumps, I made friends with people living and working there and saw how they survived through recycling the rubbish.

Michael Foreman

#5. But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the airs smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping?

Herman Melville

#6. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Alexander Graham Bell

#7. There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen the Pyramids, and I'd love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#8. If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

Bill Gates

#9. Besides, there is perhaps nothing so effective as the monotony of provincial town life in the Andes for suffocating ideals and creativity.

Miguel Garnett Johnson

#10. In comparison, Mount Everest, though 29,029 feet above sea level, rests on the 17,000-foot-high Tibetan plateau and rises just 12,000 feet from base to summit. A similar plateau boosts the Andes; without those geological booster seats, those peaks all would lie in Denali's shadow.

Andy Hall

#11. The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

Evo Morales

#12. As everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#13. Language usage always has a political context.

Jackson Katz

#14. I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

Olesya Rulin

#15. I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.

Jodi Hills

#16. Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

Idris Elba

#17. The world was abruptly sharp and clear, too clear, and too alive. It was terrible beyond words. The

Christina Henry

#18. We all have our personal Andes.

Nando Parrado

#19. Sometimes our minds acted as a form of kryptonite, and we had a responsibility to our own self-worth to aggressively tell it to fuck off with its lies.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#20. As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

Chris Hadfield

#21. We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

Adam Phillips

#22. This is my friend, Sebastian.' 'Best friend,' I blurted out and then wanted to punch myself in the face for sounding so dumb. At this rate, I'd be painting nails with her any day now. Thank God, Jaden wasn't here.

Nyrae Dawn

#23. I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Oscar Wilde

#24. In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. In the silence of the mountain there is much you can learn.

Dennis McKay

#26. I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.

Paulo Coelho

#27. Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...

Hugh Prather

#28. This is Sumarbrander, the Sword of Summer... and it is about to kick your collective butts."
"Thank you," said the sword.
Sam made a squeaking noise.

Rick Riordan

#29. He was impugning my virtue. I ought to have been offended, but for some reason the idea tickled me. That could be my next career: instrument of torture! Seducing prisoners, and then revealing my dragon scales! They would confess out of sheer horror.

Rachel Hartman