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“Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one instant, the horizon became a faint line suspended in the darkness, and then the line was drawn upward, higher and higher. It was as if a giant hand had stretched down from the sky and slowly lifted the curtain of night from the face of the earth. It was a magnificent sight, far greater in scale...than anything that I, with my limited human faculties, could fully comprehend.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“Khatun (queen) is one of the most authoritative and magnificent words in the Mongolian language. It conveys regality, stateliness, and great strength. If something resists breaking no matter how much pressure is applied, it is described as khatun. The word can form part of a boy’s or girl’s names, signifying power and firmness combined with beauty and grace. Because of the admitted qualities of khatun, men have often borne names such as Khatun Temur, literally ‘Queen Iron��, and Khatun Baatar, 'Queen Hero��.”
― Jack Weatherford

“The poor foreigner,' he said, 'has been acquainted with our grasslands but for four short days.'
'We must pity him,' said the old man with feeling.
'How hard it must be,' commented the woman, 'not to be born a Mongolian.'
'To be sure,' said the old man, 'the fellow is most unfortunate. But how blessed he is to have found his way to us!”
― Fritz Mühlenweg

“Russia is usually readier to ascribe misfortune to conspiracies rather than to the more probable screwup.”
― Dominic Ziegler, Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

“​The great conqueror, Jenghiz Khan, the son of sad, stern, severe Mongolia,
according to an old Mongolian legend "mounted to the top of Karasu Togol and
with his eyes of an eagle looked to the west and the east. In the west he saw
whole seas of human blood over which floated a bloody fog that blanketed all the
horizon. There he could not discern his fate. But the gods ordered him to proceed
to the west, leading with him all his warriors and Mongolian tribes. To the east he
saw wealthy towns, shining temples, crowds of happy people, gardens and fields
of rich earth, all of which pleased the great Mongol. He said to his sons: 'There in
the west I shall be fire and sword, destroyer, avenging Fate; in the east I shall
come as the merciful, great builder, bringing happiness to the people and to the
land.'".”
― Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Beasts, Men And Gods

“Gostoljubje je za Mongole zakon, ki so ga iz step prenesli tudi v revna mestna stanovanja. Čeprav mora po vodo na skupno pipo sredi ulice (kjer spotoma igra biljard), nas je naključni znanec pogostil kot dolgo pogrešane sorodnike. Mesece je delal za barvni televizor, a Bruce Willis je končno doma tudi pri njemu.”
― Zvone Šeruga

“He mapped the location of the tomb of Genghis Khan �� Riding 700km by horse �� he lived among the nomads of the Mongolian steppe �� �� Mongolian newspaper site Ünen �� Truth - September 25 2015”
― Mongolian news site, of Robin Ackroyd

“If you endeavour, fate endeavours”
― Mongolian saying

“Parecia que nada se fazia na Mongólia sem um brinde de vodka. De todas as tradições russas que os sovietes tinham exportado para os seus satélites, era vergonhoso que a que prevalecia fosse a vodka a qual, antigamente, nem sequer fazia parte da sua cultura.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“Andava tão em baixo que tinha perdido a ���DzԴھ�����ç�� e já sentia o estômago às reviravoltas perante a perspetiva das estradas no Cazaquistão, Mongólia e Sibéria. Quanto a mim, esses três nomes representavam a parte fundamental da nossa aventura e só poderíamos voltar a respirar de alívio quando a tivéssemos ultrapassado.”
― Ewan McGregor, Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World

“It was an extraordinary landscape-pale yellow, under a blue sky-extraordinary because it was not a desert, but rather the largest pasture imaginable; here and there a herd of horses, here and there a camel, or a man, or a tent. It was inhabited, but with a sparseness that was impressive.”
― Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster

“I found it depressing that no one in Mongolia should know anything of Chernobyl, especially when they themselves had the same sort of nuclear power plants. It was bad enough that they have been colonized and occupied by the Soviets, but it was much worse that this paternalism was taken so literally that they were treated like children and not told anything.”
― Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster

“One of the beauties of cycling is that pedalling alone on a long, empty road allows a lot of time for protracted and uninterrupted trains of thoughts.”
― Chris Hatherly, Off The Rails

“I sympathised with the bushes and envied the driftwood.”
― Tim Cope, Off The Rails

“Mongolia is a fascinating country; visit if you can. It is one of the world's last frontiers with space and landscape that defies definition.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I have been lucky to see many parts of the world denied to others. A special trip was one I made to Mongolia. It is a remarkable and unusual country. Do get there before it changes.”
― Gordon Roddick

“On this Mongolian adventure, I am alone in a double tent, which I thought would be a glorious luxury, but I am just messy.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Mongolia, I have never been anywhere quite like it. The people are wild, and the animals are tame. The whole country is fuelled by passion.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Mongolia, we set up camp in the fading light and the extraordinary beauty of this lake and this country.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We see the Tsaatan encampment of tepees in the far distance, sitting in a vast treeless plain surrounded by rolling hills and backdropped by high snow-capped mountains. We pause for a while to take in this spectacle. It took my breath away, and for a moment, everything was gone except the here and now.”
― Gordon Roddick