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If you really want to change a culture ... empower women.
— Greg Mortenson
The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final
— Lawrie McMenemy
And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains
— Greg Mortenson
I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
— Greg Mortenson
Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything
asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions
to live in bliss without knowing it? — Greg Mortenson
asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions
to live in bliss without knowing it? — Greg Mortenson
What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
— Greg Mortenson
I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
— Thomas Merton
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.
— Greg Mortenson
But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2
— Greg Mortenson
I don't want to teach Pakistani's children to think like Americans...I just want them to have a balanced, non-extremist education
— Greg Mortenson
[I]f [we] believe in [ourselves], [we] can accomplish anything.
— Greg Mortenson
He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
— Greg Mortenson
The Balti had as many names for rock as the Inuit have for snow.
— Greg Mortenson
The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
— Greg Mortenson
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
— Greg Mortenson
You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change.
— Greg Mortenson
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
— Bum Phillips
If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.
— Greg Mortenson
Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks
— Alfred The Great
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
— Terry Pratchett
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
— Greg Mortenson
But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
— Greg Mortenson
Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu
— Greg Mortenson
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 the top.
— Greg Mortenson