Quotes About Hill

At the top of a hill our automobile stuck in a snowdrift. Peasants ran out of a cottage near by, shouting with laughter because machinery had made a fool of itself, and dug out the automobile with incredible rapidity. They were doubtless anxious to get back and tell a horse about it.

his head bowed over a typewriter with the rapt concentration of a chimpanzee wondering how best to start Hamlet.

tyro psychiatrist who provided the topic for a great deal of their conversation.

Robert Oppenheimer moved to Santa Fe with a small team of aides on March 15, 1943, brisk early spring. Scientists and their families arrived by automobile and train during the next four weeks. Not much was ready on the mesa, which they began to call the Hill.

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn't understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon , power-hungry snake , and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife.

and as this need grows more intense so does a sensation of movement, speed to come, impending declaration—"The past is funny, Viv; it never seems to let things lie, finished. It never seems to stay in place as it should"—until she feels that she is beginning to run down an ever steepening hill and she must stop before the hill gets too steep and she gets going too fast to stop:

Gazing at the faintest and remotest of all the swarm of universes, I seemed, by hypertelescopic imagination, to see it as a population of suns; and near one of those suns was a planet, and on that planet's dark side a hill, and on that hill myself.

But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad,Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.

Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

O never a green leaf whispers, where the green-gold branches swing: O never a song I hear now, where one was wont to sing. Here in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill . . ." "I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born." "Yes, who was emperor back then?

Minou, minou, en poil de chou, t'as le cul qui gèle sur ta colline, fais-toi un lit d'homme, t'as des griffes comme une charrue et ta langue râpe, c'est Janet qui te cause; je te rognerai les griffes à coup de serpe, moi. »

The geologist, six years ago now, hadn't defied anything to climb the hill. He'd had his own powerful magic--the ordinary magic that extraordinarily interested people always have.

Above the plains up on the hill there stood a castle bold A gleaming palace made of white, a pillar to behold The horsemen lived in service to the castle and the crown But the knights rose up and killed the kings And it all burned down.

I bought some land in Portugal, on the highest hill in Guimaraes, because I pictured that I wanted to build my house there. I said, 'What a perfect place this would be,' but I forgot to ask the council if I could build a house there. When I did, they said, 'No!'

No. I just spent a year on a crusade. I'm sick of lunatics telling me there's absolution and ice cream over the next hill.

as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice

On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch. One one side, the bottom of this hill just touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Time passed slowly, like an old man climbing a hill.

Thankfully, the quick thinking of Jack and Jill, who were headed up the hill to fetch a pail of water, alerted the village to the incoming ogres, and villagers were able to get everyone to safety.

probably the most enduring rumor about Los Alamos, no doubt prompted by Dorothy's scavenging scarce baby clothes and cribs for new mothers on the Hill, was that it was a home for pregnant WACs.