Top 28 Tenzing 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. I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
Edmund Hillary
#3. 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
#4. I needed to go ... the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.
Tenzing Norgay
#5. The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.
Charles Williams
#6. 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
#7. In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
Iris Apfel
#8. You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.
R. Kelly
#9. those ghouls who enter into a macabre dance with pot-bellied netas.
P.G. Tenzing
#10. I grew up in suburban Brisbane, so to say you wanted to be an actor was a ridiculous concept.
Matt Passmore
#11. May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
John Darnielle
#12. the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay
#13. The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?
Anne Lamott
#14. If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.
Anthony Horowitz
#15. I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
Imelda May
#16. Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
Barbara Kingsolver
#17. Now, I call this nice. I got my daughter, my granddaughter, and my great-grandson, all in the same room. What more could a man ask of life?" He took a Welsh cake.
Ken Follett
#18. Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
Mary McCarthy
#19. 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
#20. If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Tenzing Norgay
#21. The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
Linus Torvalds
#22. If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
Tenzing Norgay
#23. I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.
Tenzing Norgay
#25. To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.
Tenzing Norgay
#26. A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
Henri Matisse
#27. I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.
Tracy Morgan
#28. 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
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