“The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.” IfsLittlesBitsLandDangerFineThousandOceanLittle BitBeatsStormMilesHandleBoatUpsetHittingSailingThousand Miles Author:John Moffitt
“This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.” Has BeensCountryLandBrokenRiversMilesIndian Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.” KnowsMenWorldNeedsStillsYoungFallTalkingPowerLandDyingGoes OnRootsWeightMilesOld ManNew WorldFlagsFalling DownSentimentalityPreconceptionsVenomousFlailing Book:The Inland Island Source: The Inland Island
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” AmericaAnimalMillionsLandIndustryCitizensRiversFishesBillionsMilesTreatedCrueltyMeatFarmsFarmersFactoriesUnnecessaryUnspeakableMeat Industry Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.” YearsWellsReligionDifficultWomenCuttingSeaInfluenceLandPeriodsThousandPaidSevenExtremesMilesBoundariesSignificanceReverenceGoddessLongevityThousand YearsImmensityExpanse Author:Merlin Stone
“Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.” LightRememberHoursWatchesLandMilesLovelyFlightNosesAviationFortyEnginesTails Book:The RAINBOW and the ROSE Source: The RAINBOW and the ROSE
“There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.” PeopleWritingHas BeensSaidCertainDealsCitiesTalkingLandWeaponsShotsMilesBombsAviationTargetAnnoyingContinentsPreciseAnglePredictionsRocketsAtomic Bomb Author:Vannevar Bush
“Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.” MadeRealCountryStoriesCommunityLandCrossesMilesOur FamilyParadoxTypicalDiggingLivelihoodTrenchesWesterners Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.” ThreeWalksOne ThingLandMovementPossibilityRepublicanThousandIndependenceConvincedMilesNativeIrelandThousand MilesNative Land Author:James Stephens
“You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.” KnowsHouseWhiteModernLandMilesWhite HouseFarmersModern LifeUfoWyoming Author:Larry King
“Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.” WayMadeAbleLostCasesSacrificeLandSubjectsHavensCitizensBattleRacismArguingMilesDiscriminationOppressionAfrican AmericanNativeMapsNative AmericanSpectrumAmerican CitizensMiles AwayDiscrimination And Racism Author:Nelson Antonio Denis
“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."” PeopleKnowsHomeAnimalNumbersGreaterLandDangerousGrewGrew UpAdvantageTownsMilesWildernessRepresentationAttackingAcresWild AnimalMinnesotaUnsafeDepiction Author:Cheryl Strayed
“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.” SeaLandMountainStormMilesLiftsIslandsWizards Book:A Wizard of Earthsea Source: A Wizard of Earthsea
“As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head” MightNightWalksLandStrangeFindingsLaysStrangerMilesStranger In A Strange Land Author:Mary Church Terrell
“Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.” YearsStatesLastsLostLosesLandSizeMilesThanksIslandsLast YearCoastHurricanesLouisianaKatrinaHurricane KatrinaRhode Island Author:Bobby Jindal
“People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.” PeopleLaughingLandCarBeatsMiles Author:Muhammad Ali
“People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.” PeopleThinkingStillsFactsUseCertainCommonSeaLandBuiltJewMilesCommon SenseOverwhelmedFolkloreCanalsExodus Author:John Henrik Clarke