Top 22 Altitude Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Altitude Quotes from famous people such as Clea Duvall, Michael Stipe, Anatoli Boukreev, Terrell Suggs, Zig Ziglar, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone’s drunk all the time.
Clea Duvall
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
Michael Stipe
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev
You never want to hit your cruising altitude; you always want to be ascending with your game. You can always get better.
Terrell Suggs
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
Emeril Lagasse
I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
Rob Dyrdek
I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
Haile Gebrselassie
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx
More than five decades of hands grated by cracks. Whole body aching from long days of big-wall hauling. Tiny tents, bivy sacs, snow caves lashed by hurricane sleet. Frozen fingers and toes. Migraines and altitude malaise. Not knowing what’s to come. It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun.
Jeff Lowe
The Earth – from our altitude at Hubble, we’re 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it’s the most magnificent thing I’ve ever seen. It’s like looking into Heaven. It’s paradise.
Michael J. Massimino
I don’t know if it’s just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I’ve grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.
Alexandra Fuller
As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.
Steven Levy
We didn’t slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.
Jim Lovell
I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me – high altitude chamber test, which is fine; centrifuge test, which I know I can do five and six G’s. These things are easy for me.
Wally Funk
Attitude determines the altitude of life.
Edwin Louis Cole
To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
Dale Archer
In Madrid, the conditions are always better for me. It suits my game: fast clay, high altitude, the balls fly really well.
Petra Kvitova
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
John C. Maxwell
To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don’t even see that sometimes.
James Dickey
I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.
Nipsey Hussle
I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn’t have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.
Reinhold Messner