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Quotes About Hill

Why do you follow me?- Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough for your embrace. Yet if over hill and hollow Still it is your will to follow, I am off; - to heel, Apollo!
~ Edna St Vincent Millayy
En la colina de enfrente y oculta tras un matorral, Laura ha seguido, sin poderlos descifrar, los movimientos del recién llegado.
~ Ednodio Quintero
Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield... finally... there's nothing there... save rust; bones; and the wind.
~ Edward Albee
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
~ Anonymous
A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
~ Anonymous
My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
~ Anonymous
Jack and Jill went up the hillTo fetch a pail of water;Jack fell down and broke his crown,And Jill came tumbling after.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
There were two blackbirds,Sitting on a hill,The one named Jack,The other named Jill;Fly away, Jack! Fly away, Jill!Come again, Jack! Come again, Jill!
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
There was an old womanLived under a hill;And if she's not gone,She lives there still.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
The King of France went up the hillWith forty thousand men;The King of France came down the hillAnd ne'er went up again.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
A level pathway led through woods, running between a steep hill and a great bog.
~ Anthony Everitt
I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.
~ Roger Bannister
Why, my Lord, did you have to bring Me down from the safety of my hill Into the danger of your will? (David p. 34)
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I saw two beings in the hues of the youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill... And both were young-- and one was beautiful -The Dream, Canto II Lord Byron
~ Madeline L'Engle
And once the others started shouting too, she stopped speaking and just watched. Pleased, as if it was what she had wanted all the time. That hate spreading like a wild fire on the hill.' A pause. 'It was as if she was drunk on the power.
~ Ann Cleeves
ACCLIVITY  (ACCLI'VITY)   n.s.[from acclivus, Lat.] The steepness or slope of a line inclining to the horizon, reckoned upwards; as, the ascent of an hill is the acclivity, the descent is the declivity.Quincy.
~ Samuel Johnson
The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As we go up into the Via Dolorosa, we hear an exciting jingle. Arab boys are racing their donkeys down the hill. You
~ Saul Bellow
As we go up into the Via Dolorosa, we hear an exciting jingle. Arab boys are racing their donkeys down the hill. You look for sleighs and frost when you hear this jingle-belling. Instead, there are boys stern and joyous, galloping hell-bent on their donkeys toward the Lions' Gate.
~ Saul Bellow
There was an old woman Who lived under the hill And if she's not gone She lives there still.
~ John Crowley
On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.
~ John Donne
There is ruin and decayIn the House on the Hill:They are all gone away,There is nothing more to say.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.
~ John Waters