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  • 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 secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  • Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket.

    Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin
  • I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.

    Running   Dream   Dog  
  • Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.

    Men   Clouds   Years  
    Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.6, New Directions Publishing
  • I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

  • When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

  • I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

    Believe   Fifty   Hills  
  • I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

    Art   Attitude   Taken  
    H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.47, Read Books Ltd
  • It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.

  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  • I think my life actually changed at 40. That's when you realize you can't ride the fence anymore. You either have to get on one side or the other. I think some of my best years were between 40 and 50: I got my priorities straight and life is good to me now. It's only other people who say, "God, she's 50 years old!" as if I'm over the hill. I feel like I just started.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  • Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away.

    Sunset   Moon   Sea  
    Madison Cawein (2017). “Kentucky Poems”, p.129, Litres
  • We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

    Men   Sea   Fishing  
  • We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.

    Country   Fear   Thinking  
    Amy Carmichael (2013). “Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain”, p.1, CLC Publications
  • Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.

  • At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

    'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June
  • We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

    Change   Patience   Hero  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster
  • Xenophilius Lovegood," he said, extending a hand to Harry. "My daughter and I live over the hill, so kind of the Weasleys to invite us. I think you know my Luna?" he added to Ron."Yes" said Ron. "Isn't she with you?""She lingered in that charming little garden to say hello to the gnomes, such a glorious infestation! How few wizards realize just how much we can learn from the wise little gnomes - or, to give then their correct names, the Gernumbli gardensi.""Ours do know a lot of excellent swear words," said Ron, "but I think Fred and George taught them those.

    Wise   Daughter   Garden  
  • The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

    Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage
  • Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.

    Dream   War   Past  
  • Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

    Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation
  • I'd rather be over the hill than under it.

  • There's a fragment that goes, "Some say the most beautiful thing in the world is a great cavalry riding down over the hill. Others say it's a vast infantry on the march. But I say the most beautiful thing is the beloved." How political can you get?

    Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
  • When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

  • Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.

    People   Giving   Hip Hop  
  • I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

  • The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.

    Moon   Light   Rose  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.286
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