Skip to content

Book Quote by Greg Mortenson

“I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than…” quote by Greg Mortenson — Download Open image

“I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is great interest in this book, and the message to fight poverty and ignorance with education.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Book Books Education Fighting Ignorance Interest Path Peace Politics Poverty Taken Thinking

More by Greg Mortenson

Our greatest ally in the Pakistan region of turmoil is the moderate Muslim majority, who we must reach out to and embrace if we…

Image

“People who live in the last places-the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world- often represent the best of…

Image

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

Image

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

Image

“I don't want to teach Pakistani's children to think like Americans...I just want them to have a balanced, non-extremist education”

Image

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because…

Image

“Abdul brushed the dirt from the American's forehead, where it had been pressed to the cool ground. "Not Pakistan man," he said. "But if…

Image

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

Image

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…

Image

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in…

Image

“Osama, baah!" Bashir roared. "Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is…

Image

“We shall pursue our dreams “until [we] reach[…] it. Or fail[…] trying. ”

Image

Explore all 89 Greg Mortenson quotes

More Book quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

Image

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Image

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

Image

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

Image

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Image

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Benjamin Graham

Image

Browse all 29,278 Book quotes