Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
In my boyhood, cattle-raising ran almost neck and neck with grain-raising. In my secluded little valley in the Suisun Hills, the rodeo… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“When tomorrow broke, our hillside home filled up with honeyed light, a fish tank.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may… — William Osler Copy Share Image
He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was… — Terry Fox Copy Share Image
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes, The meadow creeps implacable and still; A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
Oh! where do fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills, When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
