Valleys Quotes - Page 18

• Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’

  Jerry Rice

  School, Black, Littles

  "The Secrets To Jerry Rice’s Hall Of Fame Football Career Can Be Found In Crawford, Mississippi". Interview with Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Technology, Games

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
  For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
  And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
  With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Lost Love, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.186, Hayes Barton Press

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• Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Believe, Important

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.130, Xist Publishing

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• The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
  Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
  Red footprints wrote on the snow...

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Wind, Feet

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In America one of the first things done in a new State is to make the post go there; in the forests of Michigan there is no cabin so isolated, no valley so wild, but that letters and newspapers arrive at least once a week.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, Cabins, Michigan

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• The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

  William Carlos Williams

  Crazy, Lakes, Kentucky

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Technology, California, Development

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• If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

  Betty Dravis

  Kings, Earth, Dimples

  Betty Dravis (2005). “The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley”, p.7, Just My Best Publishing Company

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• And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wall, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Grandma, Use, Bigger Better

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jun 26, 2015

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• When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.

  Amit Ray

  Heart, Petals, Fragrance

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.49, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• There was a lovely bit of play which set Valley Parade alight again

  Jimmy Armfield

  Play, Lovely, Parades

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• I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, "Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax." And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.

  Paul Haggis

  Two, Murder Mysteries, Relax

  "Director Paul Haggis Talks THIRD PERSON, Putting the Cast Together, How He’d Like to Do an Extended Version, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

  Heber J. Grant

  Yosemite, Half, Forks

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• There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Joy

  Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications

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• You are the mountain and the valley.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mountain, Mathematics

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• Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.

  John Sandford

  Men, Phones, Pigs

  John Sandford (2015). “Gathering Prey: Prey”, p.53, Penguin

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• The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel.  It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

  Francine Rivers

  Heart, Israel, Battle

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Lineage of Grace”, p.322, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

  Ben Horowitz

  Entrepreneur, Company, Silicon

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• If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
  Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

  Ma Rainey

  Ocean, Sea, Mountain

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• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  Kip Thorne

  Ocean, Air, Space

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• Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Winning, Innovation, Collaboration

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