Hills Quotes - Page 24

• I lean with the hill. I know I'm doing it right if it feels like I'm going to fall on my face but I don't.

  Ed Eyestone

  Running, Fall, Faces

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• Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

  Michael Reagan

  Boyfriend, Father, Cities

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• But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Nature, Strong, Heart

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• I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

  Jemaine Clement

  Friendship, Thinking, Notting Hill

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

  John C. Baez

  Years, Inspirational Birthday, Mountain

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• Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

  Melina Marchetta

  Meaning Of Life, Red, Vinyl

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• They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

  Ray Bradbury

  Leadership, Kings, Trying

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sex, Home, Two

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.773, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

  John Ibbitson

  Independent, Political, Tactics

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• Mine is the time of foliage,
  When hills and valleys teem
  With buds and vines sweet scented,
  All clothed in glowing green.
  
  My nights are bright and starry,
  My days are long and clear
  And truly I'm the fairest,
  Of all months in the year.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Sweet, Spring, Night

  Mary Weston Fordham, “June”

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• A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Water, Balls

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• We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Beautiful, Native American, Blessing

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “My People the Sioux”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• Until I'm over the hill and over the hump;
  I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

  Aceyalone

  People, Giving, Hip Hop

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• Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

  Fred Reed

  Law, America, Machines

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• Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

  Theodore White

  Ghetto, Reality, Men

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• The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Reality, Cities

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• I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.

  Val Kilmer

  Reality, Hollywood Hills, Interesting

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• But we're looking at 500 households - that's a lot of people. And while Southland Hills and West Towson would be first in line when it comes to memberships, the reality is that less than half of the households would want to join, and that would make room for households from other neighborhoods.

  Mike Ertel

  Reality, People, Would Be

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• So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

  George Canning

  Romance, Three, Derby

  George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137

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• And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

  Dick Durbin

  Powerful, Believe, Banking Crisis

  "Dick Durbin: Banks “Frankly Own The Place”". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2009.

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• Hiking up a hill is an ass kicker, going downhill is a little easier.

  Joe Teti

  Hiking, Survival, Kickers

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• Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

  Andrew Motion

  Light, Flames, Tonight

  Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led inward also. And from the study of things underfoot, and from reading and thinking, came a kind of exploration, myself and the land. In time the two became one in my mind. With the gathering force of an essential thing realizing itself out of early ground, I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--- to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching.

  John Haines

  Country, Reading, Thinking

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• Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.

  John Hollander

  Mean, Visionaries, Fading

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• It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!

  Nelly Furtado

  Men, Summertime, Parent

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