British Hill Climb

Famous quotes containing the words british, hill and/or climb:

“However British you may be, I am more British still.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This self-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world’s affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. “I don’t go to question the good Lord in his wisdom,” runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, “but I jest cain’t see why He put valleys in between the hills.””
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“It doesn’t seem so much to climb a mountain
You’ve worked around the foot of all your life.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)