Quotes of Incline - somelinesforyou

“ Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ”

- Confucius

“ If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. ”

- Grandma Moses

“ No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too, And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you. ”

- Irish Blessing

“ Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. ”

- Bible

“ The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before. ”

- Unknown

“ I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ”

- Arnold Bennet

“ The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth. ”

- Sam Shepard

“ Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb; Duty is the path that all may tread. ”

- Lewis Morris

“ Power gravitates to the man who knows how. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ”

- Alan Ayckbourn

“ He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill. ”

- Unknown

“ I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. ”

- Matthew

“ The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight — And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end. ”

- Emma Carleton

“ And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. ”

- George Herbert

“ The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ This trip is about friendship, being in the hills with good friends and focusing on everyone's goals and aspirations. ”

- Alex Lowe

“ Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Consumers are coming through nicely but it doesn't look like there are major plans for corporations to ramp up IT spending in 2004. ”

- John Rutledge

“ I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape. ”

- Maya Lin

“ Our escalating dependence on foreign and non-renewable sources of energy is heading us down a slippery slope. ”

- Tom Harkin

“ The silence that is in the starry sky,The sleep that is among the lonely hills. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter. ”

- Unknown
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