Famous quotes containing the words son and/or miles:
“Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn’t.”
—Marge Piercy (20th century)
“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)