Quotes of Hill - somelinesforyou

“ You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ”

- Robert Burton

“ Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?". ”

- Joan Manley

“ The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates. ”

- Joe Garagiola

“ The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing… ”

- Frank Herbert

“ If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. ”

- Robert Redford

“ I've got to get to the top of the hill. ”

- John Pierpont Morgan

“ You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. ”

- Norman Schwarzkopf

“ At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. ”

- Ernest Dimnet

“ The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year. ”

- John Fiske

“ Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill? ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. ”

- Bible

“ An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ”

- John Ruskin

“ At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this? ”

- James Joyce

“ He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill. ”

- Unknown

“ How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence. ”

- Herbert Lockyer

“ I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. ”

- Grandma Moses

“ If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. ”

- Charles Morgan

“ If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it. ”

- Unknown

“ In Beverly Hills… they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. ”

- Woody Allen

“ It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. ”

- Arnold Bennett
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