Hills
Hillsare landforms that extend above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. This page is for quotes making reference to hills.
Quotes
[edit]- The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it.
- Ethan Allen,in reply to the King's attorney-general, in a New York court case decided against him, prior to his armed resistance to claims of New York authority over Vermont; quoted inCuriosities of Human Nature(1844) bySamuel Griswold Goodrich,p. 145.
- A hill is a transitional accommodation to stress, and ego may be a similar accommodation.
- Run to the hills, run for your lives.
- There is a sacredhorrorabout everything grand. It is easy to admiremediocrityand hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
- Victor Hugo,Ninety-Three(1879) Pt. 2, Bk. 3, Ch. 1.
- In the late 1800s,Europehad a peaceable bull’s-eye in the northernindustrialized countries(Great Britain,France,Germany,Denmark,and theLow Countries), bordered by slightly stroppierIreland,Austria-Hungary,andFinland,surrounded in turn by still more violentSpain,Italy,Greece,and the Slavic countries. Today the peaceable center has swelled to encompass all of Western and Central Europe, but a gradient oflawlessnessextending toEastern Europeand themountainousBalkansis still visible. There are gradients within each of these countries as well: the hinterlands and mountains remained violent long after theurbanizedand denselyfarmedcenters had calmed down. Clan warfare was endemic to theScottishhighlands until the 18th century, and toSardinia,Sicily,Montenegro,and other parts of the Balkans until the20th.It’s no coincidence that the two blood-soaked classics with which I began this book—theHebrew Bibleand theHomericpoems—came from peoples that lived in rugged hills and valleys.
- Steven Pinker,The Better Angels of Our Nature(2012)
- I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.
- Nelson Mandela,inLong Walk to Freedom(1995).
- On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our presentbourgeoisieis to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
- Karl Marx,Das Kapital(1867) Vol. I, Ch. 16, as translated by Ben Fowkes.
- I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which madeheavenandearth.
- An architect should live as little incitiesas a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. There was something in the old power ofarchitecture,which it had from the recluse more than from thecitizen.
- John Ruskin,The Seven Lamps of Architecture(1880), Ch. 3: The Lamp of Power.
- You know you're over the hill when the hill is over you.
- Jacob M. Appel,Millard Salter's Last Day(2017)
