Top 1200 Capitol Hill Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

The Capitol Police have a very tough job.

O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.

It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.

I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.

Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?'

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

When you're at home for Duke-Carolina, you have a crowd of close to 10,000 around you, loving you. That's awesome. But it's also a lot of fun in Chapel Hill, where it's you, your teammates and your coaches, and no one else. I enjoyed the games at Chapel Hill a little more because of that.

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

I was just 29 years old when I first took an oath in this Capitol to serve the people of this great state.

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

Welcome to the U.S. Capitol: Watch for falling expectations.

We had one task where we had a yoga mat on a big hill and told them to get three yoga balls at the bottom of the hill onto the mat. We didn't think that one of them would bring the yoga mat down to where the balls were, so that was a reminder that sometimes these comedians can be smarter than us.

Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

I'm not mad at anybody for that, but when I lost my deal at Capitol, things got rough.

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill, near Monmouth, which was owned by my grandparents. They lived in the big house, but my dad had five brothers and a sister, and they all lived in various houses scattered on the hill.

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

The miracle is when you shift. The miracle is when you know there is no hill - you're removing the hill. The miracle is when you realize the time of physical decline can be a time of spiritual incline.

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

I am grateful to the Capitol Police for their service.

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.