Zitat des Tages über Tausend Meilen / Thousand Miles:
The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.
What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.