Sloping Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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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
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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
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
— Leigh Hunt
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...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
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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
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched…
— Lauren DeStefano
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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
Who Wrote These Sloping Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Sloping Quotes as follows: