Thousand Miles Quotes - Page 2

• It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Boys

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

  Laozi

  Journey, Men, Feet

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• The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.

  John Moffitt

  Ocean, Land, Upset

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• I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.

  Bob Dylan

  Morning, Expression, Miles

  Song: One Too Many Mornings, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

  Harry Belafonte

  Half, Week, Miles

  Jet Magazine, January 8, 1990.

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• I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

  Fred Rogers

  Average, Two, Use

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

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• Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

  Du Fu

  House, Covering, Poor

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• Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.

  Daniel Quinn

  Fall, Rocks, Eagles

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• You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

  Eminem

  Shoes, Miles, Walks

  Song: Beautiful

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• Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Knowing, People, Important

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• Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

  Colleen McCullough

  Home, Two, Twelve

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.507, Head of Zeus

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• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Reading, Eight

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• And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Might, Pavement, Sun

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

  Robert Bly

  Distance, Adults, Miles

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Ally Carter

  Heart, Mean, Different

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• You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sleep, Dust, Miles

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.39, Penguin

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• I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dark, Miles, Said

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• If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Earthquakes, Personality

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

  Pete Hautman

  Dream, Miles Apart, Thousand

  Pete Hautman (2011). “The Big Crunch”, p.123, Scholastic Inc.

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• Two thousand miles, Rachel,” he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn’t violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn’t out here keeping the coven from attacking me. “I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn’t let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I’ll never get that memory out of my head.” - Trent to Rachel

  Kim Harrison

  Dog, Couple, Memories

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• A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Morning, Sleep

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• My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

  Susan Hill

  Heart, Race, Sky

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

  James Stephens

  Land, Independence, Three

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• A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

  Larry Wall

  Journey, Steps, Computer

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• As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

  Len Goodman

  Long, Car, Mechanic

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