Hills Quotes

1002 Hills quotes by 767 unique authors

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world,… — Christopher Marlowe
There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun highlights… — Patricia McConnell
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only… — Tennessee Williams
Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the… — David Mason
I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a… — Nancy E. Turner
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers… — William Saroyan
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds… — Robert Pyle
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the… — Michael Herr
Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to… — Groucho Marx
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed. — Quincy Jones
Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let… — Mike Tyson
Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance… — Paul Washer
There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done, — Mark Driscoll
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be… — Leonardo da Vinci
I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up… — Lance Armstrong
I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. — Dave Barry
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons… — Frank Zappa
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal. — James Branch Cabell
We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds,… — Amy Carmichael
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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