Distance Quote by N. Scott Momaday Download Open image “The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.” — N. Scott Momaday ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distance Stature
If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants. — Gene Stallings Copy Share Image
Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Several hundred feet ahead, Saphira and Thorn tussled, two giants in the night.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The arrogant stand on a mountain small people to see And they see as a small ! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's one thing about Kyriagos - he's tall, he's physical and he's slow — Ray Houghton Copy Share Image
“When we are on high (Mountain), we can see everything else as small. "Our glory and our sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach… — Bernard of Chartres Copy Share Image
Everyone's sort of the same height when you're looking from bird's eye view. — Marcus Dunstan Copy Share Image
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not… — Bernard De Chartres Copy Share Image
It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.” — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death. — Toshihiko Seko Copy Share Image
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