Quotes of Slope - somelinesforyou

“ Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ”

- Confucius

“ There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons — That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes — . ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ”

- William A. Henry III

“ When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. ”

- John McCarthy

“ 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

“ May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too, And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you. ”

- Irish Blessing

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

- Bible

“ The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before. ”

- Unknown

“ I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Tell all the Truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surprise. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ”

- Arnold Bennet

“ The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth. ”

- Sam Shepard

“ Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread. ”

- Lewis Morris

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ”

- Alan Ayckbourn

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

- Unknown

“ The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight — And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end. ”

- Emma Carleton

“ And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. ”

- George Herbert

“ In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ”

- Daniel Boone

“ 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

“ This trip is about friendship, being in the hills with good friends and focusing on everyone's goals and aspirations. ”

- Alex Lowe

“ I know my own heart to be entirely English. ”

- Princess Anne

“ Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Consumers are coming through nicely but it doesn't look like there are major plans for corporations to ramp up IT spending in 2004. ”

- John Rutledge

“ I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape. ”

- Maya Lin

“ The silence that is in the starry sky,The sleep that is among the lonely hills. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues… ”

- William J. Durant
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