Quotes About Hills

Up in the hills we say that autumn kisses you, but winter fucks you hard.

petals—enlarges to two hundred and thirty. The bud is the Fayoum, a natural depression in the hills that shut in the Nile valley on the west, which has been rendered cultivable for many thousands of years by the introduction into it of the Nile water, through a canal

Up in the hills, in the miniature forests of heather and broom, where the sun-warmed rocks were embossed with strange lichens

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

It's hypocrisy of men makes these hills grim

Fiery colors begin their yearly conquest of the hills, propelled by the autumn winds. Fall is the artist.

Lincoln was born on a Kentucky farm called Sinking Spring, which, a neighbor explained, was "uneven" and "disagreeable to work for farming."82 At age two, his family moved to Knob Creek, named after the steep hills called "knobs" that surrounded it, and made the ravine dark and subject to flooding.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains are my home.

Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

L'idea delle pecore predatrici che si nascondevano di giorno negli angoli più inaccessibili delle colline per riversarsi di notte come orde assire sulle file di ortaggi degli agricoltori della vallata era piuttosto singolare.

if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen

Tutta Parigi era ai suoi piedi, coi mille pennacoli dei suoi edifici e l'orizzonte circolare delle sue molli colline, col fiume serpeggiante sotto i suoi ponti e il popolo, formicolante per le sue strade, con la nube dei suoi vapori, la catdna montuosa dei suoi tetti che rinserra Notre Dame tra le sue gambe accavallate. Ma di tutta quella città l'arcidiacono non guardava chs un punto: la piazza del Sagrato; di tutta quella folla, una figura: la zingara.

Fairy-tale city. From the air, red rooftops hug a kink in a dark river, and by night the forested hills appear as spans of black nothing against the dazzle of the lit castle, the spiking Gothic towers, the domes great and small. The river captures all the lights and teases them out, long and wavering, and the side-slashing rain blurs it all to a dream. This was Akiva's first sight of Prague;

You will find the blue hills... with the autumnal shadows silently sleeping on them, and there will be a glory lingering round the day, so you'll know autumn has been here; and the setting sun will tell you...

I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills...

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

The germ of the dilemma…is trapped in the room with me, always has been, and always will be, and it is yet more foreign to me than those foreign hills outside.

I loved Tristan in Nancy Collins' run. I love Vampirella having a werewolf paramour; it's too fun. Coleridge had to come with them, of course, to set up her spooky new manor up in the hills of Los Angeles, and also because he's just a delight.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.