Explore Quotes on Hills

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

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

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.

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.

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen_x000D__x000D_To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,_x000D__x000D_And sweet as Flora. Take no care_x000D__x000D_For jewels for your gown or hair_x000D__x000D_Fear not; the leaves will strew_x000D__x000D_Gems in abundance upon you_x000D__x000D_Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,_x000D__x000D_Against you come, some orient pearls unwept._x000D__x000D_Come, and receive them while the light_x000D__x000D_Hangs on the dew-locks of the night_x000D__x000D_And Titan on the eastern hill_x000D__x000D_Retires himself, or else stands still_x000D__x000D_Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying_x000D__x000D_Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, _x000D__x000D_And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; _x000D__x000D_Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells _x000D__x000D_On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom; _x000D__x000D_A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud; _x000D__x000D_The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain; _x000D__x000D_And now, when the heavens are propitious for action, _x000D__x000D_Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;_x000D__x000D_And spring comes green again to trees and grasses_x000D__x000D_Where petals have been shed like tears_x000D__x000D_And lonely birds have sung their grief._x000D__x000D_...After the war-fires of three months,_x000D__x000D_One message from home is worth a ton of gold._x000D__x000D_...I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin_x000D__x000D_To hold the hairpins any more.

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.

Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.

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

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.

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.