Miles

Famous quotes containing the word miles:

    “I skirted the margin alders for miles and miles
    In a sweeping line.
    The day was the day by every flower that blooms,
    But I saw no sign.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “De Camptown racetrack five miles long—
    Oh! doo-dah-day!”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)