Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill."
Hills quotes
Hills
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Montel Williams
Television Host
"I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."
Erma Bombeck
Humorist, Writer
"I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill."
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"Over hill and under hill"
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"Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill."
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"I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall."
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"But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash."
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"The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow."
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"Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain."
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"I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi"
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"You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill."
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"It's a long climb up Fools' Hill."
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"No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill."
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"Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available."
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"Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will"
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"And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill."
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"When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill."
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"A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking."
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"... there are shadows because there are hills."
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"Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill."
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"Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills."
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"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top."
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"At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill."
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