After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
It's no use crying over spilt summits.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of...
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, ...
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
