(448 quotes found)
“Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills”
Proverb
“Like the seventh cavalry emerging o'er the brink of the hill, I come with panniers full of wallpaper”
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
“The latest dream I ever dreamed / On the cold hill side.”
John Keats
“Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill.”
Matthew Arnold
“There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“It is a little hill, or rather three or four hills that seem piled together... and just where their shade is the darkest, they suddenly recede, and, from a stoney excavation, bursts forth a strong and rapid stream of pure and brilliant water, which pours directly down the precipice, and is lost in the trees that crowd over it.”
Charlotte Smith
“My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills / My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, / Whose constant cares were to increase his store.”
John Hume
“And didn't just happen in Minnesota, ... Anita Hill wasn't an isolated case. There are cases everywhere. And I don't think it's stopped.”
Charlize Theron
