Hill View Quotes

#1. When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

Tamara Hill

#5. Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Napoleon Hill

#6. Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it
you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.

Rodney Yee

#7. XXVI
There was set before me a mighty hill,
And long days I climbed
Through regions of snow.
When I had before me the summit-view,
It seemed my labor
Had been to see gardens
Lying at impossible distances.

Stephen Crane

#8. If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

Stephen Fry

#9. I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be with you at the crash, you've got to put them on the manifest.' And so I was always of the view to almost leave no stone unturned when you're up there briefing the Hill.

Michael Hayden

#10. After six hours in the car, he felt no panic, only a kind of numb wonder. On some level he had come to view his situation as almost natural. Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. It came and took you away from your loved ones, and you never got to go back.

Joe Hill

#11. I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

Os Guinness

#12. A huge Chinese population here in ... Houston.

Bill Walton

#13. Yeah, I suppose it was a history. I wanted it to be more of a geography, but she kept slappin' my hand.' Trev

Terry Pratchett

#14. One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

Lawrence Halprin

#15. Flowers are God's smile at mankind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. There's a societal push for conformity in all rways," he said. "There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction.

Allen Frances

#17. I looked up from that churning amphitheater to the view beyond it.
The great, gray eye of the sky looked back at me, its mist-shrouded sun focusing
all the white and silent distances that poured from every point of the compass, hill after pale hill, to stall at my feet.

Sylvia Plath

#18. I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children.

Hill Harper

#19. It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett

#20. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

#21. Stella's father hesitated. "Georgia supports me, but she was a mite trembly this morning. I brought Stella though."He squeezed her shoulders affectionately. "I don't want to just tell her about bravery--I want to show her what it looks like.

Sharon M. Draper

#22. Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

George Carlin

#23. Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west.

Theodore Roosevelt