143 Quotes About Valleys
- Author Thomas Love Peacock
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The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.
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- Author Dan Rosensweig
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In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.
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- Author Jerry Rice
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Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I'd get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, 'Hey Jerry, we're going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.'
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- Author Ben Stein
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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- Author Garth Stein
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Yet for every peak there is a valley.
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- Author George Gaylord Simpson
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A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.
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- Author Neal Stephenson
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Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.
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- Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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- Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell
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