Quotes About Being Over The Hill

#1. If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Loudon Wainwright III

#2. his recreational passion at Sagamore Hill that summer of 1903 was the so-called point-to-point "obstacle walk," the one rule, the only rule, being that the participant must go up and over, or through, every obstacle, never around it.

David McCullough

#3. It's only hunting you that keeps me from being you.

Val McDermid

#4. If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.

Dale Earnhardt

#5. #
# My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

Mark Driscoll

#6. Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.

Chuck D

#7. I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#8. I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.

Kate Voegele

#9. Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

Philip Yancey

#10. With beat of systole and of diastole One grand great life throbs through earth's giant heart, And mighty waves of single Being roll From nerveless germ to man, for we are part Of every rock and bird and beast and hill, One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill. From

Oscar Wilde

#11. Being fit is the easiest part of being a dance professional. I used to just throw on a backpack full of rocks and run up a hill. You don't even have to go to a gym.

Anton Du Beke

#12. I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,
the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

Robert Southey

#13. One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth.

Tom Cunningham

#14. Kids think of us as being totally over the hill.

Thurston Moore

#15. Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.

Shusaku Endo

#16. With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381

Joe Hill

#17. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

E. M. Forster