Birmingham Snow Hill

Famous quotes containing the words snow and/or hill:

“Each person sweeps the snow before his own door, and never minds the frost on another family’s roof.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)