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Quotes About Hill

Lots of archaeology. Most of it hidden. Overgrown castle mounds and tumps. And hill forts. No official history – like no National Trust stuff, but it's all around you, unlabelled. You need to know what you're looking for. I like that.
~ Phil Rickman
Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
~ Philip Yancey
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
~ Billy Corgan
They sent us the script of 'Back to the Future III' and we wrote 'Doubleback' for it.
~ Dusty Hill
the base of the hill he brought the vehicle to a crawl, then carefully turned onto a two-track and threaded his way through two fieldstone columns, an old wooden gate angling away from one
~ Aaron Stander
This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.
~ Quentin Crisp
It is possible to share a dial-up Internet connection by using software tools, but it's also possible to push a stalled car up a muddy hill.
~ Quentin Docter
She turned her head, still smiling, and looked down the hill towards the city, where cars were moving in swarms along the roads beside the river. The distinctive shape of her nose, which from the front slightly marred her fine-featured face, in profile attained beauty: it was upturned and snub-ended and had a deep V in its bridge, as though someone had drawn it with a certain licence, to make a point about the relationship between destiny and form.
~ Rachel Cusk
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
~ Tea Leoni
Corinne was confusedly aware of something dashing in front of the station wagon at the crest of a hill. A gray-funny shape blurred with spee and before Corinne could think to brake the vehicle's front wheels, ran over it with a thud, and beside her, Marianne began to scream and scream.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
He lay tensed beneath the worn blanket and tried, as always, to shut out the noise of the rumbling carts that, empty now, having deposited their loads at the warehouses south of the Aventine hill, were moving up to the Aemilius bridge.
~ Wallace Breem
There is something in October sets the gipsy blood astir. We must rise and follow her Where from every hill aflame She calls and calls each vagabond by name.
~ Wallace Stegner
I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.It made the slovenly wildernessSurround that hill.
~ Wallace Stevens
I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.
~ Wallace Stevens
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.
~ Walt Whitman
The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place
~ Wang Wei
To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.
~ Washington Irving
There are flowers growing upon the hill Like they always have before, And now you slumber and all is still, And your sword will ne'er strike more.
~ James Horner
The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.
~ African Proverb
I had seen my brother's name in the Cinema Palace newspaper advertisements. If I climbed back up the winding path on the hill I had just come down, I would be at his home. As I have been writing this, a poem by Nakamura Kusadato suddenly comes to mind: Coming down the winding trail, The springtime voice of the crying calf.
~ Akira Kurosawa
At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.
~ Alan Garner
A totally hot ski instructor," Leah suddenly announced excitedly. "That's what you need to take your mind completely off Brad Connor." "How can a ski instructor be hot ?" I asked. "His classroom is a snow-covered hill. He's gotta be cold." Allie rolled her eyes and Leah gave me a sharp look that said she was seriously contemplating throwing the snow she'd just scooped up at me.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.
~ Ralph Hodgson
When the good ones, the hardworking hill climbers, are displaced for any reason—bad legislation, ghetto diffusion, or political leveraging—social sewage will flood in to fill the void. It
~ Randy Wayne White