Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“No hill was so tall that it stayed my tread.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“You're not over the hill, you're at the top of the mountain. It's been tough work getting to this point, but now you have…

— Andrea Brandt

“I was the giant great and still That sits upon the pillow-hill, And sees before him, dale and plain, The pleasant land of counterpane.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.”

— Robert Rankin

“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks…

— Roberto Bolaño

“VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surveying behind me a wasteland…

— John Tottenham

“I am not tired. I do not easily get tired. And I do not sit down. I am not very, hm, bendable. But there,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems…

— Jonathan Coe

“When I trust in my own skill, what seems to be a mountain, is actually a hill.”

— Miss Lisa Zarfas Levine

“...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.”

— Nuala O'Faolain

“Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Standing on an open hill, I imagine muffled footsteps overhead.”

— John Champlin Gardner Jr