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Edmund Hillary Quotes

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: July 20, 1919 - January 11, 2008

Topics

Life You Miserable High Pretty Get

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

Bird Money Job Training College Big

Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.

Day Enough Done Sometimes Everything

Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

Time Focus I Am Help Sometimes Poor

My son was diagnosed with autism. He's OK, he makes eye contact, but he doesn't talk. He needs eight hours a day of very intensive school, and you wouldn't even believe me if I told you how much it costs.

Son Day School Me Eye Believe

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

Birthday Eyes Me Search Long Become

If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He's getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.

Soul Ideas Road Think Genius Body

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

People Think Blues Person Will Just

I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about it. And I've read others that were kind of a slog, and I've put them down and come back six months later thinking, 'Wow, this is great.' So, you know, things change all the time.

Change Great Time Thinking Better

I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it.

Work Beauty Age Myself Discipline

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

Women Think Better Place Skills Get

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

Music Dinner Eating Drive Enough

I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.

Light Feet Camera You Housing Big

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