Hills Quotes - Page 27

• I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

  Andy Griffith

  Home, Connections, Television

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  Harpo Marx

  Brother, New York, Children

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• We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach.

  Frans de Waal

  Beach, Sea, Apes

  Frans de Waal (2009). “The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society”, p.199, Crown

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• This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

  Michael Lang

  Thinking, Sky, Rolling

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• Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

  John Stark

  Sleep, Usa Patriotism, Flags

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• Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

  Steven Bochco

  Opportunity, People, Ensemble

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• Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.

  Steven Bochco

  Memories, Firsts, Television

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Spring, Rain, Wind

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1879). “Along the Way”

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Snakes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

  Myrtle Reed

  Summer, Rivers, Rocks

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.58, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.

  Laird Hamilton

  Inspire, Surfing, Risk

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• Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.

  Eamonn Coghlan

  Motivational, Running, Stress

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• That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

  Cynthia Weil

  Real, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Marathon, Idiot

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• The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

  Sandra Lerner

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Aunt

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• The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

  Jean Shepherd

  Family, Kentucky, Feet

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• I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

  Victoria Abril

  Men, Littles, Over The Hill

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• The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

  B. Traven

  Pain, Real, Lying

  B. Traven (1963). “The Treasure the Sierra Madre”

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• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, Curves, Space

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Giving, Economy

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• Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

  Will Carleton

  House, Way, Poor

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.51, Applewood Books

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• San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

  William Saroyan

  Art, Block, Home

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• The great affair, the love affair with life,
  is to live as variously as possible,
  to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
  climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.

  Lance Armstrong

  Body, Up And Down

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