Hills Quotes

• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Spring

  "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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• Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Answers, Firsts, Life Is

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• If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.

  Greg Epstein

  Running, Answers, Wallets

  Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Sight, Looks, Firsts

  Florence Griffith Joyner, John Hanc (1999). “Running For Dummies”, For Dummies

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• No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  House, Should

  An Autobiography bk. 2 (1932)

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.33, Rajpal & Sons

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• A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

  Emily Dickinson

  Color, Silence, Human Nature

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• I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Stars, Tree, Listening

  Charles Hanson Towne, “Silence”

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• If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, People, Fool

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• All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

  Dennis Prager

  World, Goodness, Beans

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• Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Stones, This Day

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• This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

  Jose Marti

  Age, Mountain, Looks

  "A Morir [To Die]". Essay by Jose Marti, 1894.

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• Use the hills to get stronger!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stronger, Use

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• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

  Duke of Wellington

  Art, War, Sides

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• May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.

  Ronald Reagan

  New Beginnings, Cities, Shining

  Ronald Reagan (1998). “A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan”

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Lying, Silence

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• Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

  Kathleen Parker

  Money, Doom And Gloom, Light

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• I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Peace, One Day

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Land, Jail

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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