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Quotes About Distance

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
~ John Steinbeck
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
~ Tom Hardy
It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face
~ John Walter Bratton
Honey, have you seen your sister?" She's on Jupiter, Mom.
~ Diane Duane
I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.
~ Maggie Georgiana Young
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
~ Anthony Liccione
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
~ W. S. Merwin
A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.
~ Tyler Perry
No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.
~ Christie Watson
My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.
~ Lauren Graham
It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.
~ David Icke
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
~ Omar Khayyam
You," I said, "are sweet music in a distant room.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
~ Paul McCartney
Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
~ William Wordsworth
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.
~ Yosa Buson
Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance.
~ Denis Dutton
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
~ Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.
~ M.F. Moonzajer