Valleys Quotes - Page 7

• THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?

  Jack Gilbert

  Night, Long, Buckets

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.235, Knopf

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• All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.

  Denis Johnson

  Queens, Moving, Clouds

  Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.30, Granta Books

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• They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

  Norton Juster

  Residents

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• ...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

  Alistair Maclean

  Men, Long, Return

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• Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

  Thomas Cahill

  Book, Hero, Europe

  FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Mar 07, 2015

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• I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. And I remember when you... you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said... "Who knows The Valley Song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I... I watched you going home every day...

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Teacher, Home

  "The Hunger Games". m.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

  Saul Williams

  Destiny, Self, Soul

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• It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Real, Brain

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.91, Random House

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• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Flower, Two, Three

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

  Melina Marchetta

  Land, Giving, Crowds

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.1332, Penguin UK

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• The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Moon, Fire

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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• It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass one day through the valley of the shadow of death, and “que la fin de la vie humaine, ce sont des larmes ou des cheveux blancs.” What lies beyond this is a great mystery that only God knows, but He has revealed absolutely through His word that there is a resurrection of the dead.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Lying, Shadow Of Death, One Day

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Fall, Clouds

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• In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

  Song: Angelina

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• [Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Fall, Buddhism

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• I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Eye, Littles, Breeze

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

  Isaac Marion

  Hills, Heartbeat, Existence

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

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• Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Men, Two

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. Ch. 1 : A tough mind and a tender heart, 1963.

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• Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Long, Landscape

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Oil, Smell, Mountain

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• Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Apples, Water, Secret

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.4, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Writing, Journey

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• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Climbing, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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