Quotation Explorer - 'Hill'

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill. - Wallace Stevens
Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit.I snap sticks beneath my feetand steal pictures of the view while you reach for something sweet, as much as it bowsto you. - Kristen Henderson
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic. - Charles de Lint
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. - Ronald Reagan
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. - Victor Hugo
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. - H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more! - John Bunyan
In my restless dreams,I see that town.Silent Hill. - Sadamu Yamashita
For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond. - Sunday Adelaja
Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill? - William Butler Yeats
Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill... - Virginia Alison
People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think. - C. JoyBell C.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. - Arnold Bennett
Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.Getting to the top is the manna of life.AL/fd - Anthony Liccione fd
I told you 'bout the fool on the hill I tell you man he livin' there still Now here's another place you can be Listen to me Fixin' a hole in the ocean Tryin' to make a dovetail joint Look into a glass onion.
Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. - Bible
It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past. - Tony Curl
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. - George Gordon Byron
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. - Pablo Neruda
Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear. - Noel DeJesus
The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year.
It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation. - Dan Simmons
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree......unless that tree's growing on top of a hill. - John DePrey
I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away - John J. Geddes
Only fate would decree how it reached its destiny, which always waited just around the corner, over the hill... - Virginia Alison
If everyone realized this truth about their own inherent power to create and to attract whatever they desired, not everyone would want to be the president of a country, not everyone would want to live on that mansion on the hill, and not everyone would want the same things you would. - Stephen Richards
You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder
Be brave. Take the hill. But first answer the question, "What is my hill? - Matthew McConaughey
....I've got to get to the top of the hill..
Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We couldn’t believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast. - Meg Rosoff
Napoleon Hill said "The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known - Bob Proctor
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven. - Walt Whitman
Hmmm.. We are like children in a bus with faulty brakes on a hill, eventually we will meet our collusion point. Well blindly some of us may think of sacking out all the good out of the bus before it meets it's end, but what is really there to sack out. Some places are hard to to get out of. - Allan Amanyire
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. - Nelson Mandela
Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. - Jo Baker
Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. - Charles M. Schulz
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