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Quotes About Hill

Sixty three sunsets I saw revolve on that perpendicular hill – mad raging sunsets pouring in sea foams of cloud through unimaginable crags like the crags you grayly drew in pencil as a child, with every rose-tint of hope beyond, making you feel just like them, brilliant and bleak beyond words. –
~ Jack Kerouac
I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
~ Chelsea Cain
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.
~ T. S. Eliot
Mount Abu is a beautiful place.
~ Sanya Malhotra
He drove out the ridge and off the hill, wondering why he'd waved. It was instinctive, as if something had ended, a farewell to everything that had happened between them for the past sixteen years.
~ Chris Offutt
Then lest the people should repeat Their visit to his calm retreat, Away from Chitrakúá¹­a's hill Fared Ráma ever onward
~ V?lm?ki
Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.
~ Langston Hughes
The cottage was set hard into the side of the hill, crouching before the winter winds that roared across the moors. It announced itself by smell long before you could catch sight of it. Sometimes sickly sweet, sometimes astringent, the scents of herbal brews and cordials wafted powerfully from the precincts of the little home.
~ Geraldine Brooks
indifferent to his manly display. With her free hand, she scooped up his discarded sword belt and heaved it down the hill, where it tangled
~ Glynnis Campbell
Slowly the night is falling, Falling down from the hill, And all in the low green valley The dew lies heavy and chill; The crickets cry in the hedges, The bats are circling low, And like ghosts through the blossoming garden The glimmering night-moths go...
~ Anonymous, "My Angel," 1800s
But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
~ Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp)
That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.
~ Jimmy Hill
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Action is taking the first step. Action is climbing the hill. Action combined with desire, harmonious intent, and undoubting yesfulness is invincible. Hallelujah!
~ Terri Guillemets
Most people would put me firmly in the nerd/geek category. It wouldn't be a change from where I've been put my whole life, but my place now has standing. Nerds are inexorably cool again.
~ Kyle Hill
We're a superstitious breed, we Irish, and wise enough to build around a faerie hill without disturbing it, to leave a stone dance where it stands. And to keep back from a place where the dark still thrums.
~ Nora Roberts
The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.
~ Clive Barker
The grade of Nineteenth Avenue was so daunting for the engines of the day that watching automobiles straining for the top became a local pastime.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill.
~ Charles Dickens
The burst with which the carriage started out of the village and up the rise beyond, was soon checked by the steepness of the hill. Gradually, it subsided to a foot pace, swinging and lumbering upward among the many sweet scents of a summer night.
~ Charles Dickens
Noons are sunny, warm, and still; A golden haze o'erhangs the hill; Amber sunshine 's on the floor Just within the open door; In September.
~ Elizabeth Cole
Rage flooded through me like a draught of strong spirit. The right thing to do, of course, would be to get up, tip the bucket of bloody water over Uncle's head, run down the hill and drive away; away from Yorkshire, from Uncle, from the Dinsdales, from this cow.
~ James Herriot
It sat proudly atop the hill behind wrought-iron gates, with smooth lawns, tennis courts, and shiny classroom buildings, a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance, glowing like a phoenix above the ramshackle neighborhood of Chicken Hill.
~ James McBride
Jack and Jill came to the hill on a grave and somber mission you've made them mad the time's so bad to be a politician Jack and Jill came to hill to do some deadly deeds they weren't far wrong to judge how long a bleeding liberal bleeds.
~ James Patterson