Quotes About Distance

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

It's hard to see your dad once in a blue moon.

If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

And the Angels…were frozen in hard marble silence and at a distance life awoke, and there was a rattle of lean wheels, a slow clangor of shod hoofs. And he heard the whistle wail along the river. Yet, as he stood for the last time by the Angels, he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he has left, yet he does not say "The town is near," but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring hills...

For it is so with time and memory: the seed of our deepest feeling is buried under the rush of a momentary and violent one, there is in all feeling a quality of deception and evasion, and the meanings of the spirit become evident only in the light of a dispassionate distance

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

The two aliens had been held captive for at least eight years. Not much of an existence for people who know how to travel light years' distance, and had somehow done so to reach Earth." The Code Orange team were never present when the

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

Entrapped by the image, contemporary subjects come to inhabit a world without distance.

America "is no country for the infirm" because infirmity indicates a failure of enjoyment. To be sick is thus to be guilty. The sick illustrate the persistence of dissatisfaction and distance within the society of enjoyment. In acknowledging the sick, one acknowledges lack as well. Hence, like Roy Cohn, we opt instead for nonstop motion, for trying to eliminate the distance that the sick would introduce into the contemporary world.

There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer — a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters.

Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together.

Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space.

their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon.

although surely she realized that space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.

You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.