#thousand miles

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

#call #deep #feels #four #ground

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

#alone #also #away #country #day

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#city #country #hill #inspires #miles

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#despise #dropped #gave #i #into

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#american #asian #away #doing #home

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#journey #miles #must #step #taken

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#easy #farming #field #looks #mighty

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

— Harry Chapin

#stay #still #ten #thousand #thousand miles

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#found #go #hours #i #juvenile

Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man. ↗

— Wes Montgomery

#florida #gig #good #got #group