Nearest Quotes

269 quotes by 225 authors

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She… — Willard Boyle
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. — Giles Foden
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no… — Bob Considine
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation… — C. Wright Mills
It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on… — Joshua Slocum
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home… — John Dyer
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. — Michael Tippett
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. — George Bancroft
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. — Fred G. Gosman
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had. — Irene Rosenfeld
Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. — Bible
It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. — George MacDonald
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought… — Blaise Pascal
Distance Never Separates Any Relation, Time Never Built Any Relation, If Feelings Are True From HEART, Then 'NEARESTS ARE ALWAYS NEAREST' In Any Condition. — Ritu Ghatourey
I just asked Siri to give me directions to the nearest mental institute and it redirected me to Twitter. — Nikhil Saluja
He whose needs are the least will always be the nearest to God. — Vikrant Parsai
If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one. and start from a person nearest to you — Mother Teresa
Next time you fart, turn to the nearest person and say, Did you hear that asshole talk shit behind my back? — Green Monk
A heart that grows beyond fond, Often seeks refuge in the nearest person. That's why distance has often been the major leading cause of diluted… — Lord Jack Kabasu
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. — Charlotte Curtis

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