Greg Mortenson Quotes

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• It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More…
• Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
• The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
• The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
• Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me…
• My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
• If you really want to change a culture... empower women.
• Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear…
• Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
• But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
• I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
• I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to…
• Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.
• The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.
• If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly…
• In 'Three Cups of Tea' I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the…
• Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go…
• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence.…
• Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me.…

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