Relative Distance

Famous quotes containing the words relative and/or distance:

    “She went in there to muse on being rid
    Of relative beneath the coffin lid.
    No one was by. She stuck her tongue out; slid.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Letters to absence can a voice impart,
    And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)