Miles

Famous quotes containing the word miles:

    “Casting me adrift, 3500 miles from a port of call. You’re sending me to my doom, eh? Well, you’re wrong, Christian! I’ll take this boat as she floats to England if I must. I’ll live to see you—all of you—hanging from the highest yardarms in the British fleet.”
    —Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

    “I have been accustomed to make excursions to the ponds within ten miles of Concord, but latterly I have extended my excursions to the seashore.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
    Where gulls blew over a wave
    That fell along miles of sand....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)