Valleys Quotes - Page 28

• I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Tree, Firsts, Environment

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press

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• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Past

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sheep, Mountain, Latter

  1829 TheMisfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.

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• Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Running, Spring, Flames

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

  Alan Cohen

  Laughter, Healing, Dark

  Alan Cohen (1987). “Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation”, Dolphin Communications Co

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• Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.

  Sidney Lanier

  Running, Pain, Fall

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

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• The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Culture, Profit, Silicon

  "Dot-coms turn declining small town into 'Silicon Village'" by Perri Peltz, cnn.com. December 30, 2000.

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• Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

  John Wright

  Philosophy, Offering, Church Music

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• The parents pull you aside and say, `I have to give credit where credit is due, you really are sacrificing a lot for the community, and giving,' .. But I'm from here and committed to Homestead and the Steel Valley, and it's a no-brainer to me.

  Charlie Batch

  Sacrifice, Giving, Community

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• The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!

  William Morley Punshon

  Morning, Clouds, Darkness

  William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.50

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• I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

  Criss Jami

  Views, Order, Christ

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.72, Criss Jami

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• Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.

  Irving Pichel

  Memories, Father, Real

  "Fictional character: Huw Morgan". "How Green Was My Valley", www.imdb.com. 1941.

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• I once did a Sprite commercial where I had to come out of the train station, jump out of a turnstile, jump on the side of a moving train. I had to run down the top of this moving train while it was going through the mountains and valleys. It was really hairy. I got my honorary stuntwoman card for that. I was proud.

  Sharon Stone

  Running, Moving, Mountain

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• Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Mountain, Ass

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

  Meg Whitman

  Might, Miles, Given

  The Economist, October 02, 2010.

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• Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.

  Johnny Mercer

  Lonely, Crazy, Heart

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• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Growing Up, Thinking, Feelings

  "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.

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• Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.

  Saul Alinsky

  Life, Adventure, People

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.22, Vintage

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• Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.

  Howard Carter

  Years, Missing, Royal

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 5, 1922.

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• For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Dark, Thinking, Kitchen

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• West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Cutting, Woods, West

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.694, Delphi Classics

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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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• Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Despair, Nerves, Summit

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1124, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I do not love the Sabbath, The soapsuds and the starch, The troops of solemn people Who to Salvation march. I take my book, I take my stick On the Sabbath day, In woody nooks and valleys I hide myself away. To ponder there in quiet God's Universal Plan, Resolved that church and Sabbath Were never made for man.

  Robert Graves

  Book, Men, People

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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