Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or distance:
“I am not the measure of creation.
This is beyond me, this fish.
His God stands outside my God.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)