Hill Quotes

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. (W. Somerset Maugham)
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. View quote
Nelson Mandela
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill". View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. View quote
William Wordsworth
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill and there they will remain forever. View quote
Daniel Webster
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. View quote
Robert Browning
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. View quote
William Blake
When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. View quote
William Blake
Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill. (Murray Walker)
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill. View quote
Victoria Abril
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. View quote
Bob Schieffer
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. View quote
Russell Banks
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. View quote
Tea Leoni
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. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will. View quote
Leonard Cohen
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine! View quote
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 – the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den – Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10 mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe. (Ron Paul)
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier. View quote
Robert E. Howard
When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail. View quote
William Cobbett
So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES. View quote
George Canning