distance quotes

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

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

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.