Raha Moharrak quotes

“I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be second.”
-- Raha Moharrak

Source : "First Saudi woman summits Mount Everest" by Bryony Jones, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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“I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.”
-- Raha Moharrak

Source : "Raha Moharrak: First Saudi woman to conquer Everest and break taboos" by Kellie Morgan, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2013.

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“I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.”
-- Raha Moharrak

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“I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.”
-- Raha Moharrak

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“I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.”
-- Raha Moharrak

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“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of ***** if you're lucky.”

“I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.”

“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.”

Source : "40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering". Book by Alice Waters, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

“Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.”

“Care for him who shall have borne the battle”

“There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.”

“I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.”