Famous quotes containing the word miles:
“Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds
Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about
There’s scarce a bush.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And my spirit is grown to a lordly great compass within,
That the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of
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Will work me no fear like the fear they have wrought me of yore
When length was failure, and when breadth was but bitterness sore,
And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain
Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain,—
Oh, now, unafraid, I am fain to face
The vast sweet visage of space.”
—Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
“Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.”
—“Marcy.” As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, Introduction, by Jane O’Reilly (1980)