Quotes About Distance

The sun and the moon shared the horizon in a distant friendship, each unfazed by the other.

For the mouths of her children quickly forgot the taste of her nipples, and years ago they had begun to look past her face into the nearest stretch of sky.

A ' ohe loa i ka hana a ke aloha. Distance is ignored by love.

Then there was someone else I met, whose face and voice I can't forget, and the memory of her is like a jail I'm trapped inside, or maybe she is something I just use to hold my real life at a distance.

Who would have imagined that I would have to go a million miles away from the place where I was born to find the people who love me? And that I would go that distance and that I would find those people?

The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.

She was always over the horizon, chasing stars.

To calculate the distance of the storm, count the number of seconds (one Mississippi…two Mississippi…three Mississippi…) between the flash of lightning and the thunder. Then divide by five. You now know how many miles away the storm is.

We'll come get you," his mother said. "We're on our way. I'm getting the atlas out right now and I'm drawing a line from Tennessee to Nebraska. Wow, that's a heck of a drive. We better leave right now. Caleb, we're leaving.

They sit roughly 900 miles north and east of the Bahamas; roughly 600 miles east of Virginia; and about 3,500 miles south and west of London.

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.

Time passes in the rain that doesn't fall, in the lakes and rivers that we don't reach.

My bad foot's a long way from my brain.

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consciousness of it, the effort of it, the grammar of it, pulled you up; a new language provided distance and kept the heart intact.

The bridge of stars?" Janeway asked. "Uh-huh," Glenn said, nodding. "I can't remember the whole story. Two galaxies were one but over time, the natural expansion of the universe separated them. Still, they couldn't bear to be torn apart, so each of them sacrificed a few of their stars to leave a bridge between them so that no matter how far apart they drifted, they could never truly be separated." "That's beautiful," Chakotay said, glancing toward Janeway with a gentle smile.

You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.

I can give you some hope. I think you have it in you to survive all this. I think you're special. You could be what I was - a writer.... And if your life gets really difficult, Theo, there are two things you can do. You can force yourself to see people at a distance, like someone in a story. Then they'll lose their power over you. Or you can make up something better and escape it.

Size doesn't matter whether small or big thats why a bird can be far and see a worm with its small eyes which u can't see from that height with your bigger eyes

Flowers scattering - The water we thirst for Far off, in the mist.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Even at a distance of decades, people invoking Gandhi's name still evade the hard questions raised by Godse in his speech.

Immeasurable space. Closeness. The shortest distance between two women.