Thousand Miles Quotes - Page 3

• What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.

  Tom Robbins

  Girl, Odds, Two

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• In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

  Achim Steiner

  Islands, Sea, Rising

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• But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

  Harry Chapin

  Miles, Where You Are, Thousand

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• You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

  Gene Simmons

  Cities, Australia, Jail

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Skins, Miles

  Song: Streets Of Philadelphia

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• Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

  Benjamin Martin

  Tyrants, Three, Patriot

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• In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Two, Rivers

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• 'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Block, Mean, Ghetto

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Philosophy, Want, Matter

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• A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
  A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
  A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.

  Laozi

  Journey, Feet, Towers

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• I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part The hardest day, it broke my heart But I still see you every day Because in my heart and mind you stay.

  Gail Collins

  Sympathy, Heart, Hug

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• I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Kneeling, Firsts

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

  Ellis

  Running, Shoes, Pairs

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• History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

  Gilbert Highet

  Book, Reading, Home

  "Peoples, Places and Books". Book by Gilbert Highet, 1953.

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• You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

  Henry Miller

  Food, America, Cooking

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Intimate Henry Miller”

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• I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Memories, Likes And Dislikes, Clothes

  Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books

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• It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.

  Doug Stanhope

  Journey, Airports, Ass

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• I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

  Billy Joel

  Rock And Roll, Names, Faces

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• When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

  Stephen Elop

  Boston, White, Potatoes

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• My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beer, Sea, Soul

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• The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.25, Gottfried & Fritz

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• The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

  John B. Jervis

  Science, Important, Doe

  JOHN B. JERVIS (1872). “A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS”, p.3

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• What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

  John Quincy Adams

  History, Quests, Fields

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• The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America. And standing here in the heartland of America, we say in one voice We will not give in to terrorists; We will not rest until they are found and defeated; We will win this struggle not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace; So help us God.

  Tom Harkin

  Struggle, Heart, Winning

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