Tenzing 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. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

Courtney M. Privett

#5. Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#6. To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

Eleanor Perenyi

#7. 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

#8. God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Drew Barrymore

#9. If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.

Ron Finley

#10. Our wyrds - our fates

Christopher Paolini

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

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

#12. I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

Dorothy Stratten

#13. Enlightenment is higher states of awareness.

Bryan Kest

#14. 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

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

Tenzing Norgay

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

Tenzing Norgay

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

Tenzing Norgay

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

Tenzing Norgay

#19. When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Stefano Benni

#20. Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.

Siddharth Katragadda

#21. 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