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  • There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

    Sea   Water   Silence  
    'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 19
  • Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

    Inspiring   Horse   Dust  
    Ernest Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
  • I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

    Song   Play   Tree  
    "Exclusive: Kate Voegele Calls Kevin Federline A 'Down-To-Earth Guy'". MTV Buzzworthy Interview, www.mtv.com. April 30, 2008.
  • The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

    Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of the side window was a wonderfully slinky mink, and an arm, and at the end of the arm a hand in a white suede glove wrinkled around the wrist, and in the hand was a bagel with a bite out of it.

    Block   Hands   White  
    Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

    Men   Tree   Hills  
    James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.523, e-artnow
  • When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

    Running   Silly   Eye  
    Sam Shepard (2009). “Buried Child”, p.99, Vintage
  • Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

    Purple   Way   Hills  
    Alfred Noyes (2008). “The Flower of Old Japan”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC
  • 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.

    Running   Art   Water  
    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

    Real   Writing   Creative  
    "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
  • ...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

    Eye   Men   Doe  
    Thomas Wolfe (1997). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.508, Simon and Schuster
  • The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

    Life   Country   Blue  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.359, Vintage
  • I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

    Voice   Want   Hills  
  • ...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

  • I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

    Laughter   Joy   Sorrow  
  • I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

    Mean   Rocks   Levels  
  • O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

    Life   Morning   Play  
    Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.18
  • I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

  • There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

    Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
  • My house got flooded in Los Angeles and completely ruined it. People asked how did your house flood on the hills in LA? It was a plumbing problem that the landlord didn't fix, so everything got ruined there. It's one of those things where you take the opportunity and run with it. My producers are here and we're working on the new album here, and I was here all of the time so it made sense to spend some time here, so we'll just see what happens. It's definitely very different.

  • I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

    Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
  • It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster
  • Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are

    Army   Trying   Hills  
  • America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points up and down, and we can laugh now at the absurd notion of there being a north and a south. We are one and undivided.

    War   America   History  
  • The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

    Moon   Two   Perfect  
    Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart
  • Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

    Art   Light   Sky  
    William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4
  • If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.

    Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.131, e-artnow
  • Do you ever feel like running away?" "Of course... Sometimes I feel like I want to run away from everything." "I remember having that feeling once when I was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm... I climbed over the fence, but I was still in the world!

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