HILLS

Related Subject: Mountains

1. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.—Bible, Matthew 5:14
   

2. The hills,
   Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.—BRYANT, Thanatopsis
   

3. The first range of hills that encircles the scanty vale of human life is the horizon for the majority of its inhabitants. On its ridges the common sun is born and departs. From them the stars rise, and touching them, they vanish.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria
   

4. Over the hills and far away.—JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
   

5. Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
   Into our souls the secret of your power!—RICHARD HOVEY, Comrades
   

6. But on and up, where Nature's heart
   Beats strong amid the hills.—R. M. MILNES, Tragedy of the Lac de Gaube
   

7. For we were nursed upon the self-same hill.—MILTON, Lycidas
   

8. The higher the hill the lower the grass.—Proverb
   

9. He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill.—Proverb
   

10. To climb steep hills
    Requires slow pace at first.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

11. Hills whose heads touch heaven.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

12. What if the bridge men built goes down,
    What if the torrent sweeps the town,
    The hills are safe, the hills remain,
    And hills are happy in the rain.—SARA TEASDALE, Even Today
    

13. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
    For there the mystical brotherhood
    Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
    And river and stream work out their will.—W. B. YEATS, Into the Twilight