Famous quotes containing the words distance and/or scale:
“[As we say], When you get to be 18 youre out of here. No wonder teenagers start to distance themselves from us.”
—Jerry Tello (20th century)
“The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)