"My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair."

-- Allen Steck

#Climbing Quotes #Tourists Quotes #Next Quotes

“In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.”
“Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has lifted man out of himself. It has changed the face of the world. There it lies, imbedded in more than eighteen centuries of human history; and history of no mean sort, the best record of the race.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“Touring for two years is excruciating.”
“Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.”
“Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.”

Source : John Todd (1972). “Woman's Rights”, Arno Pr
“Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.”
“Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.”

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