Hill Quotes

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

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!

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

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

The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.