Quotes About Distance

In the distance, he could see a large star made out of red and green lights on the side of a barn, a reminder that Christmas was coming.

When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.

Men of noble birth, are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves, go back.

I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change people or their flawed perspectives from a distance. You open their minds from up close, when they realize you respect and love them.

One of my brothers is a body builder, and the other is an accountant. Both of them live in Australia, so I rarely get to see them. My sister lives in the U.S.

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

I rarely meet a lot of the people who buy and collect my work.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.

The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.

If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.

My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

It's been hard for my parents to be able to drive and come and see me play. And a lot of friends and people just don't get out to see us, so I'd like them to, gosh, before we get too old.

Especially in America, when you move away from home, sometimes you get disconnected with your grandparents, your friends you grew up with.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few.

I think, now that my brothers and I live so far apart, the greatest gift is when we can be together - when everyone can be in the same room at the same time.

We spend on average 220 days of the year out of the country. It's a long time to be away from your family especially when your children are growing up.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.

It was like someone far away calling someone else's name.

It's a long way back. she said softly. Nick shrugged and held her hand tighter. Not so far as we've come already.

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