Happy Valley

Famous quotes containing the words happy and/or valley:

    Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;
    Everything is happy now,
    Everything is upward striving;
    James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)