Thousand Miles Quotes

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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. — Joseph Conrad
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin… — Laozi
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… — Charles Dudley Warner
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction… — John B. Jervis
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… — Laozi
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall… — John Quincy Adams
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… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And… — John F. Kennedy
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.
The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World… — Tom Harkin
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people… — Muhammad Ali
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles — Du Fu
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way! — Winsor McCay
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover… — Anko Itosu
The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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… — Wes Montgomery
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth;… — Laozi
Step by step walk the thousand-mile road. — Miyamoto Musashi

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