#valley

No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They’d rather die. It’s so uncool to be early. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#parties #stereotypes #sweet-valley #uncool #love

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#first #first of all #good #high #i

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#downward #earth #every #forming #gradually

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better! ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#doing #end #even #had #heart

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#children #death #deepest #even #follow

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#between #book #curves #difference #feeling

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#always #building #companies #cool #friends

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#across #beautiful #each #exactly #four

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#course #good #got #haven #i

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#continue #energy #firmly #get #goal