Hills Quotes - Page 25

• NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

  Xavier Becerra

  Law, Justice, Sides

  "‘NOH8 on the Hill III’ Draws Support From 67 Members of Congress" by Laurence Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, May, Heavy

  Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Military, Mean

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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• At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

  William Kunstler

  Dream, People, Firsts

  William Moses Kunstler (2004). “The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority”, Ocean Press (AU)

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• Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Writing, Long, Boat

  Daphne Du Maurier (1972). “Vanishing Cornwall”

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• Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Enthusiasm, Dignity, Climbers

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature.
  I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Beautiful, Islands, Light

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• I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

  William Peter Blatty

  House, Haunting

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

  John Legend

  Piano, Track, Legends

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• Today was a good day for Hill Air Force Base and Utah.

  Rob Bishop

  Good Day, Air, Utah

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• All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Tree, Uterus

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• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world

  Robert Caro

  Country, Creating, Texas

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• The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

  Kevin Powers

  Prayer, Spring, War

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.

  Elaine Paige

  Teacher, Encouragement, Drama

  "Angie Davidson Interviews Elaine Paige" by Angie Davidson, 2005.

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• I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

  Norman MacCaig

  Nature, Love Is, Gregarious

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• America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

  Sam Watkins

  War, America, History

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• We'll make a bunker hill of it.

  George Pickett

  War, Bunker Hill, Bunkers

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• His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

  John Milton

  Support, Steps, Burning

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 292

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• The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Children, Reading

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

  Pat Buchanan

  Territory, Capitol Hill, Israeli

  "Is Perry Anderson lost in the lobby?" by Alan Johnson, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Cutting, Climbing

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 21: Sermons 1210-1270".

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• I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Mountain, Existential Angst

  "Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants more computers in schools" by Dan Fost, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 28, 2009.

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• There's going to be a new code on Parliament Hill: bend the rules, you will be punished; break the law, you will be charged; abuse the public trust, you will go to prison.

  Stephen Harper

  Trust, Government, Law

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• For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.

  John Winthrop

  Eye, Cities, People

  "A Modell of Christian Charity" (1630).Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wrote this in a discourse composed aboard the Arbella during its voyage to Massachusetts. See Bible 208

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• In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Curves, Interesting, Different

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