Thousand Miles Quotes - Page 5

• The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

  Laozi

  Success, Journey, Two

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• On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Long, Presidential, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.277, Best Books on

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• To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Kings, Home, Fighting

  "There Will Be War". Book by Jerry Pournelle, 1983.

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• What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Children, Paddling, Hundred

  "Exhaustion and Fulfillment: The Ascetic in a Canoe" by Pierre Trudeau, www.canoe.ca. 2000.

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• Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Steps, Miles, Walks

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Athlete, Order

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• I'm the young city bandit, hold myself down singlehanded
  For murder raps, I kick my thoughts alone, get remanded
  Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
  I'm deep by sound alone, caved inside in a thousand miles from home

  Nas

  Rap, Home, Cities

  Song: The World is Yours

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• Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Space, Progress

  The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

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• No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beauty, Men, World

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

  Richard Bach

  Son, Light, Numbers

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light marijuana cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.

  Philipp Meyer

  Cheer, Wall, Home

  "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.

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• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over.

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Done, Miles

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• The journey of a thousand miles
  starts from beneath your feet.
  
  NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest shoots;a terraced garden, from a pile of earth,and a journey of a thousand milesbegins by taking the initial step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Garden, Feet

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• Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Women, Desire, World

  Cyril Tourneur, Thomas Middleton, C. R. A. Foakes (1996). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.114, Manchester University Press

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• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

  Paul Eldridge

  Wisdom, Long, Twenties

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• Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Lust, Gold

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• These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

  Langston Hughes

  White, Feet, Miles

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

  Paul Simon

  Strong, Wall, Philosophy

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• A traveler s thoughts in the night Wander in a thousand miles of dreams.

  Wang Wei

  Dream, Travel, Night

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