Valleys famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
-- Adam Carolla -
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
-- Adam Smith -
There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.
-- Alan Autry -
A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,
-- Alan Autry -
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest ***** in the valley
-- Alex Garland -
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
-- Anthony Michael Hall -
All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once youre laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what Im saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.
-- Artie Lange -
I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!
-- Ashley Madekwe -
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
-- Barbara Johnson -
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
-- Bell Hooks -
In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
-- Ben Horowitz -
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
-- Bernard Williams -
There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,
-- Bill Gurley -
Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.
-- Bill Gurley -
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.
-- Billy Graham -
Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.
-- Billy Graham -
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
-- C. S. Lewis -
God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.
-- Catherine Marshall -
The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.
-- Charlaine Harris -
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
-- Charles Lamb -
We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
-- Charles Sturt -
I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
-- Cheech Marin -
I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
-- Chris Hughes -
I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here.
-- Cindy Margolis -
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
-- Criss Jami -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-- Dan Gable -
Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.
-- Daniel Yergin -
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.
-- Daphne Koller -
I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
-- Edmund Hillary -
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor -
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 -
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
-- Elizabeth McGovern -
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.
-- Emmy Rossum -
The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..
-- Ethan Zuckerman -
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.
-- Francis Harold Cook -
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
-- Gary Hamel -
A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.
-- George Gaylord Simpson -
Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.
-- George Meredith -
You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.
-- Gloria Grahame -
Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19
-- Greg Mortenson -
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
-- H. G. Wells -
Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love ...
-- Hadewijch -
Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
-- Haniel Long -
I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.
-- Heber J. Grant -
We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.
-- Heinrich Himmler -
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
-- Henry Beston -
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.
-- Howard Carter -
O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.
-- James Altucher -
I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in.
-- Janet Napolitano -
Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.
-- Jean Giono -
There was a lovely bit of play which set Valley Parade alight again
-- Jimmy Armfield -
But down the bagagge, take of the blinders, and see for yourself that this very place is the valley of the endless spring, this very body is the body of the universe. At such a time, who is it who can accompany this?
-- John Daido Loori -
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
-- John Keegan -
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley
-- John Maeda -
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today
-- John Sculley -
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
-- John Wooden -
You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.
-- Joshua Michael Stern -
I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.
-- Katherine Hannigan -
I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school.
-- Katie Leclerc -
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
-- Ken Auletta -
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.
-- Lloyd Bridges -
O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.
-- Mansur Al-Hallaj -
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not
-- Marc Andreessen -
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
-- Marc Andreessen -
As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
-- Mary J. Blige -
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
-- Maxine Kumin -
Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
-- Meg Whitman -
In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.
-- Mel White -
There's a Hidden Valley ranch party in my mouth.
-- Melissa M -
Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.
-- Michael Moritz -
I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.
-- Mo Brooks -
China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.
-- Muddy Waters -
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
-- Neil Young -
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.
-- Niklas Zennstrom -
The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.
-- Niklas Zennstrom -
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
-- Norton Juster -
If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.
-- Oswald Chambers -
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ...
-- Phoebe Cary -
My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.
-- Picabo Street -
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.
-- Rashad Evans -
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
-- Reid Hoffman