Sloping Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. — Wendell Berry
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles… — Frans de Waal
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. — Leigh Hunt
...he put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such… — Edward Burnett Tylor
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest… — S. J. Perelman
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched… — Patrick Ness
The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint… — John James Audubon
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing… — Marcel Proust
Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It… — Richelle Mead
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous… — Vladimir Nabokov
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. Theyâ€™re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched… — Lauren DeStefano
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree;… — Rainer Maria Rilke

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