Miles Quotes

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

A man is designed to walk three miles in the rain to phone for help when the car breaks down - and a woman is designed to say, 'you took your time' when he comes back dripping wet.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

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.

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.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it.

How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.