Hills Quotes - Page 27

• Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.

  Greg Laurie

  Life, Christian, Car

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• But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".

  Bernadette Roberts

  Home, Self, Track

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.23, SUNY Press

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• Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

  John Betjeman

  Rivers, House, Church

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• What the Londoner sees in his mind's eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against a foggy sunset, and the great arc of Barlow's train shed gaping to devour incoming engines, and the sudden burst of exuberant Gothic of the hotel seen from gloomy Judd Street.

  John Betjeman

  Sunset, Eye, Mind

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• Name me no names for my disease,
  With uninforming breath;
  I tell you I am none of these,
  But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,
  For brooks that I had crossed,
  Before I met this flesh and bone
  And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,
  Yet name no name of ills.
  Say only, “Here is where he passed,
  Seeking again those hills.

  Witter Bynner

  Heart, Names, Disease

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

  Esther Williams

  Swim, Beverly Hills, Hospitality

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• When I first saw The Black Kat Boppers I was sat on a hill at a festival and could hear this music in a tent that literally grabbed me by the lapels and dragged me in

  Paul Simonon

  Black, Festivals, Tents

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• Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

  Afua Cooper

  Spiritual, Pain, Book

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• The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

  Philip Connors

  Sleep, Thinking, Mountain

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• I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago

  Hilary Swank

  Years, Beverly Hills, Remember

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• Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

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• The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Climbing, Hungry

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• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

  Max Beckmann

  Spring, Flower, People

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• Hills are terrific for running

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Terrific

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• I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Speed

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• Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I
  chose to embrace hills.

  Hal Higdon

  Strong, Hate, Cycling

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• What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.

  Steve Squyres

  Real, Adventure, Simple

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• In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

  John McGraw

  Fun, Winning, Games

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• Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

  Muriel Lester

  Friday, Sight, Evil

  Muriel Lester (1947). “It So Happened”

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• I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.

  Gary Reilly

  Heart, Years, Occupation

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• The hill pines were sighing,
  O'ercast and chill was the day;
  A mist in the valley lying
  Blotted the pleasant May.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, May, Valleys

  Robert Bridges (1899). “Poetical Works of Robert Bridges: Shorter poems. New poems. Notes”

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• I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fall, Sunset, Autumn

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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• The road to success is long and up hill all the way

  John C. Maxwell

  Long, Way, Road To Success

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• Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Crazy, People, Curiosity

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• At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

  Vinton Cerf

  Moving, Boulders, Needs

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