Hills And Valleys Quotes

• Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  "A Raisin in the Sun". Play by Lorraine Hansberry, 1959.

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• Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Life Lesson, Heart, Valleys

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• The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love Is, Growth, Valleys

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

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• The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Eye, Lovely

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always something left to love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Romantic, I Hate You

  "Gabriel García Márquez: 'He made no claim for his divinity'" by Mona Simpson, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Love, Inspirational, Raisins

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• The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Valleys, Half

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.186, Book Tree

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• Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, People, Soul

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.50, Best Books on

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.

  J.H. Wyman

  Valleys, Stories, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.

  Arthur Machen

  Heart, Perfect, Valleys

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• I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

  Isaac Marion

  Valleys, Hills, Heartbeat

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, People, Support

  Speech in Bennington, Vermont, September 21, 1928.

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• Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Nature, Men, Sea

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• The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Flower, Roots, Heaven

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Valleys, Hills

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• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Land, Desert

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.59, e-artnow

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• Mine is the time of foliage,
  When hills and valleys teem
  With buds and vines sweet scented,
  All clothed in glowing green.
  
  My nights are bright and starry,
  My days are long and clear
  And truly I'm the fairest,
  Of all months in the year.

  Mary Weston Fordham

  Sweet, Spring, Night

  Mary Weston Fordham, “June”

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• Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Life, Yield

  "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

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• Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.

  Tom Turner

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis

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• There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.

  Diablo Cody

  Strong, Emotional, Childhood

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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