Valley Quotes

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran

Friend, Through, Sometimes

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Small, Peak

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Made, Dream

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Death, Through

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon

Mountain, Highest, Deepest

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Morihei Ueshiba

Teacher, Wise, Everything

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy

Death, Two, Shadow

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

Goal, Energy, Keep

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

Sunrise, Space, Wonder

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
Temple Grandin

Made, Guy, Autism

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz

Honor, Nation, Soldiers

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
George W. Bush

Peace, Mountain, Mighty

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Adam Smith

Through, Road, City

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke

May, Path, Seen

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Austin O'Malley

Through, Remember, Light

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
Thomas Friedman

Realized, India, Flat

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence

Family, Men, Free

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Job, While

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

Cool, Friends, Start

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.
Diablo Cody

Age, Women, Amazing

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.
Diablo Cody

Sweet, High, Fabulous

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

Wanted, Start, Point

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

Next, Expect, Software

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.
Marc Andreessen

Successful, Whether, Company

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
Marc Andreessen

After, Since, Generation

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.
Marc Andreessen

Love, Technology, Find

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Buffalo Bill

Death, Father, Friends

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
Salman Rushdie

Beautiful, True, Small

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
Gus Van Sant

Death, Less, Weird

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.
Adam Carolla

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