"Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures..."

-- Wolfgang Gullich

#Mean Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Other Cultures Quotes

“I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined... but the band director said #That's not really normal.' Of course, all you have to tell me is that something's not normal and I'll go for it!!”
“And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there”
“It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.”
“Im afraid Wisconsin is you, Nebraska, only with much better parties and more wins.”
“I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.”
“The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.”

Source : "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.
“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter.... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.”
“You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion.”

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