Hills Quotes - Page 26

• On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

  Alexander Carmichael

  Summer, Song, Winter

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• Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;
  And spring comes green again to trees and grasses
  Where petals have been shed like tears
  And lonely birds have sung their grief.
  ...After the war-fires of three months,
  One message from home is worth a ton of gold.
  ...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin
  To hold the hairpins any more.

  Du Fu

  Country, Lonely, Spring

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Night

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

  Jesse Helms

  Zoos, Fence, Chapel Hill

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• I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Saws, Sun

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.832, Pearson Education

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• The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Path, Ants, Glaciers

  John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  O. Henry

  Country, Moving, Trying

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.517, ShandonPress

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• And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.

  Tayari Jones

  Mother, Coffee, Heart

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.27, Algonquin Books

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• Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Games, Beverly Hills

  "3 Reasons I'm Excited Beverly Hills Housewife Lisa VanderPump Is Getting Her Own Show" by Lindy Segal, www.glamour.com. April 4, 2012.

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• In Beverly Hills, the higher you climb, the farther you fall.

  Brandi Glanville

  Fall, Beverly Hills, Higher

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• I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

  Boz Scaggs

  Thinking, Voice, Mary J Blige

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• At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

  Tanya Tucker

  Thinking, Pick Me Up, One Day

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• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Desert, Rooms, Enough

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.56, Rutgers University Press

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• Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Firsts, Higher, Get Over

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• In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under the skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here . . . there is music in the air of the place.

  Frank Porter Graham

  Beautiful, Color, Sky

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• When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Sunset, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2029, Delphi Classics

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• Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Yield, Climbing

  "Keys to Success".

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• I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sports, Skiing, Skis

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• I stood beside a hill
  Smooth with new-laid snow,
  A single star looked out
  From the cold evening glow.
  There was not other creature
  That saw what I could see,
  I stood and watched the evening star
  As long as it watched me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Long, Snow

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Future, Men

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.

  Sam Houston

  War, Hero, Hands

  Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”

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• Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are

  William Redington Hewlett

  Army, Trying, Bigger

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• We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.

  Ben Chifley

  Fighting, Light, Hands

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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