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Quotes About Distance

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
~ Edna Ferber, Gigolo
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
~ Ralph Ellison
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.
~ Terry Pratchett
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
~ Aphra Behn, The Rover
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
~ Philip Pullman
A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.
~ Jeremy Irons
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
~ Andrew Dickson White
You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?
~ David Wong
With air travel there is no distance, there is only time.
~ Judith M Bardwick
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
~ Helen Van Slyke
Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.
~ Robert Breault
I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.
~ Kevin Bond
Lots of travel, away from home.
~ Bob Hope
Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.
~ Cynthia Ozick
It was good to travel to the other side of the world.
~ Andre Braugher
Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
~ Carole King
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
~ Confucius
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
~ George Eliot
Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.
~ Selena Gomez
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
~ Bruce Feirstein
He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.
~ Sheri Holman
There's so much love sent through the mail.
~ Sheridan Hay