Miles Quotes

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. (Laozi)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. View quote
Laozi
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. View quote
Robert Frost
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? View quote
Richard Bach
I ran three miles today. Finally I said, Lady take your purse. View quote
Emo Philips
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. View quote
Bill Maher
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. View quote
Russell Baker
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. View quote
Louis L'Amour
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. (Billie Holiday)
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. View quote
Richard Bach
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. View quote
Confucius
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. View quote
Anna Quindlen
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. View quote
Dave Barry
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in. (Andrew Pyper)
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. View quote
Louis L'Amour
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. View quote
Buffalo Bill
Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too. View quote
Freddie Hubbard