Quotes About Distance

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.

In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here." I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. "I don't want to be awayfrom you for that long.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

I went to New Zealand this year, and, whew man, I know a lot of people want to go there. But let me just tell you, it's 22 hours by plane. So, if you have the opportunity, don't.