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As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks. -- Neil Young
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon. -- Andy Van Slyke
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. -- John Wooden
Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. -- Bernard Williams
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. -- Christopher Marlowe
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. -- Helen Keller
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
You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth. -- Wayne Newton
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. -- Winston Churchill
You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys. -- Gloria Grahame
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. -- Leo Tolstoy
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. -- Jim Butcher
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. -- Adam Smith
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
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
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
For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink. -- Zooey Deschanel
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
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality. -- Bryan White
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
Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. -- Charles R. Swindoll
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.
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys. -- Marc Andreessen
It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life. -- Spencer Johnson
Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak. -- Spencer Johnson
If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all. -- Betty Dravis
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level. -- Dan Gable
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. -- James A. Garfield
Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness. -- Dewitt Bodeen
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. -- Sylvester Stallone
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
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
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair. -- Rick Warren
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado. -- Kip Thorne
I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up. -- Robin Sharma
The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town. -- John Lasseter
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response. -- Diablo Cody
Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic. -- Dennis Quaid
Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch. -- Richard Preston
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it. -- Queen Latifah
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. -- Jill Tarter
Mountains, hills and valleys confirm the beauty of Your holiness. -- Euginia Herlihy
May the light of God's love lead us always through the valleys. -- Amy E. Tobin
Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys. -- George Herbert
Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys. -- Billy Graham
I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys -- Isaac Marion
Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves. -- Count Basie
It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks. -- Pat Morita
Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train! -- Sid Waddell
No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures. -- Debasish Mridha
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. -- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes. -- Deb Caletti
If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking. -- Robin Sharma
I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. -- Dave Dravecky
Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys. -- Tom Watson
To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon. -- Andy Van Slyke
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. -- Alexander Cockburn
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. -- Laozi
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. -- Augustus William Hare
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. -- Helen Keller
The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through. -- C. S. Lewis
Life has its sunshine and its rain, sir... its days and its nights... its peaks and its valleys... -- Charles M. Schulz
The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is. -- Barbara Johnson
West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves. -- Francis Harold Cook
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
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. -- Peter Shumlin
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. -- Salvador de Madariaga
If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top. -- Roy Rogers
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
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. -- Bill Watterson
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. -- Robert W. Service
Before anything else, determine your direction right, because if your direction is wrong, you may end up in deserts instead of green valleys! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life. -- Morihei Ueshiba
No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching. -- J. H. Wyman
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever. -- Jill Scott
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life? -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart. -- Francine Rivers
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
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career. -- Patrick Swayze
The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves. -- William Carlos Williams
Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach. -- Mark Teixeira
Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know. -- Maud Lindsay
I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game. -- J. C. Snead
From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales. -- Luke Evans
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
The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls. -- Sam Worthington
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
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
Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths. -- Tom Seaver
A stellar, fully-realized collection of stories... grounded, wonderfully, in the river valleys of western Maine. You come away not only understanding a place but the soul of its people. -- Peter Orner
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. -- Dalai Lama
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect." -- Charles Lyell
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect. -- Charles Lyell
I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games. -- Denny Crum
If we listen to and follow the promptings of the Spirit, they will serve as a Liahona, guiding us through the unknown, challenging valleys and mountains that are ahead (see 1 Nephi 16). -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual. -- David Hockney
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. -- Sun Tzu
So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God. -- Dan Millman
Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things. -- Peder Soerensen
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower. -- Dorothea Dix
With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey. It is both scary and exciting at the same time. -- Sebastian Cole
What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out. -- Tracy Letts

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