Distant

Famous quotes containing the word distant:

“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)