Valleys Quotes - Page 5

• Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

  Joan Didion

  Girl, Pain, Age

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.42, Zola Books

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• Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Views, Giving

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• If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Mirrors, Hair

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• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Love Is, Darkness, Pathways

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• The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Views, Sea

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.164, Dial Press

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• If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.

  Steven Galloway

  Men, Cities, People

  Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.136, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitude of someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valley for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Attitude, May, Lasts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1977). “Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, War, Forever

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.29, Vintage

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• But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting around us, as Grover had promised. They were rolling straight over our valley, sealing us in like a coffin lid. Er, Percy ...?" Grover said. "We don't use the c-word to describe the Lord of the Sky.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Clouds, Sky

  "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, May 1, 2008.

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• And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moving, Doors, Rivers

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.737, Wordsworth Editions

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• The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Passion, Light

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• I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.

  Frank O'Hara

  Pieces, Want, Defeated

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.40, Grove Press

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• Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

  Douglas Coupland

  Kids, Years, Careers

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• We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Suffering, World

  bell hooks (2008). “Belonging: A Culture of Place”, p.25, Routledge

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• The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Mountain, Depth

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• This is not our fight', the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan. . . Look hard for your river Jordan, my child. You'll find it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, Fighting, Men

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains.

  Daniel Handler

  Mountain, World, Safe

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• I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

  Raymond Chandler

  Onions, Splits, Pearls

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strong, Revenge, Mean

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• I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Children, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.324, A&C Black

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• Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Block, Character, Opportunity

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• The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Flower, Past, Offering

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.145

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• The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Night, Blood, Darkness

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• I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected

  Thomas Merton

  Flower, Heart, Lakes

  Thomas Merton, Lynn Szabo (2005). “In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, Relationship, Strong

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from May 07, 2011

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