Distance Quote by Sarah Orne Jewett

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all…

— Debi Mazar

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

— Agatha Christie

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

— Ian Frazier

“Hands, teeth, gut, thoughts even, were all simply more or less convenient to human circumstance, as my father was receding from human circumstance, so,…

— Paul Harding

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

— Yolandi Visser

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in…

— John Locke

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring - these chimp families that I knew so well -…

— Jane Goodall

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.

— John Lanchester

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

— Gia Coppola

We had such a strange upbringing with such eccentric parents and so we were often put in situations where finding what was funny was…

— Natasia Demetriou

Sometimes, I look at my parents now and wonder what happened to make them the way they are

— Anonymous

In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'

— Kristin Scott Thomas