Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or distance:
“The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.
“I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)