Valleys Quotes - Page 19

• We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Blessed, Soil, Rich

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• Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Treasure, Bears, Sierra

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• The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

  Ron Conway

  Angel, Google, Innovation

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• My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

  Tim Conway

  Eggs, Careers, Eating

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• If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

  Ken Auletta

  Ivy, League, Breeding

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• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  Marc Andreessen

  Graduates, Late, Company

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• I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Careers, Icons

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• Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Cutting

  Song: I'm On Fire, Album: Born In The U.S.A., 1984

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• Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

  Barbara Johnson

  Inspirational, Jobs, Growing

  Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group

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• To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Pain, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 94, 1895.

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• It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Land, Creative, Mountain

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.364, Ballantine Books

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• What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.

  Tracy Letts

  Cutting, Important, Want

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• The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.

  Robert Stawell Ball

  Rip, Parent, Mountain

  Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1906). “The Cause of an Ice Age”

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• Shade and light are different in every valley.

  Li Bai

  Light, Different, Shade

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• I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.

  Katie Leclerc

  School, San Antonio, Born

  "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.

  Janet Napolitano

  Running, Together, Steps

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• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  Xavier Niel

  Real, Paris, Spirit

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• I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, People, Important

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• When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "How the Sweet Valley girls grew up". Interview With Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

  Erik Qualman

  Jobs, Counter Culture, Together

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• I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.

  Matthew Rhys

  Running, Uncles, Years

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• Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.

  Ken Salazar

  Growing Up, Fighting, America

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• Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Energy, Wells

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Done

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

  Daniel Suarez

  Your Side, House, Sides

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