Valley Quotes
468 Valley quotes by 365 unique authors
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Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
— Oswald Chambers
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A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
— C.S. Lewis
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not…
— Alan Paton
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O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the…
— Victor Hugo
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Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.…
— John O'Donohue
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart…
— Gabriela Mistral
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful…
— Mark Twain
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The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting…
— Barack Obama
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The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art…
— Margaret Atwood
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The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,…
— Jack Kerouac
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out…
— Terry Pratchett
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In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we…
— Salman Rushdie
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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant…
— Oscar Wilde
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Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.
— Khaled Hosseini
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She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something.…
— Francesca Lia Block
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There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the Valley. That’s not true, baby,” said Desiree. She took…
— Francesca Lia Block
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O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who Wrote These Valley Quotes
365 authors contributed a total of 468 Valley Quotes, led by these top contributors: