(774 quotes found)
“A thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.”
Lao Tzu
“About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.”
Frank Yerby
“Hawaii is an island state, thousands of miles from anywhere. It's as if we are in a boat, caught in treacherous waters, needing to set sail for a better place. If I were to chart a course north, but you insisted on going south, then we would go nowhere. We would stay stuck exactly where we started.”
Linda Lingle
“Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.”
William Faulkner
“A mile walk with a friend has only one hundred steps”
Russian Proverb
“We're getting a lot of air miles, ... I'll go back when I can, and they'll come here when they can. But it's tough.”
Hugh Laurie
“[Miles] said, 'We're going to do the alma mater,' and everybody was like, 'What?,' ... I am actually excited about the celebration with the students. I want to see how it goes. This is the first time LSU has ever done anything like this, so I'm happy to be a part of it, but I'm still on the edge about not knowing what to expect.”
Justin Vincent
“Obviously if you ask me, I'd like to see our colt's best distance be a mile and a quarter. … We weren't training this horse to win the Hopeful. We're training the horse for down the road, and the Hopeful is the next logical step.”
Bruce Lunsford
“I'd rater know a square guy than own a square mile”
Wilson Mizner
“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with wondering if you turned off the iron.”
William Rotsler
