#forty

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. ↗

— Larry David

#empty #ensure #forty #forty years #generation

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#day #desperately #die #every #every night

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#down #forty #heights #look #pyramids

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. ↗

— Charles Evers

#alone #forty #got #mule #never

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream. ↗

— Robert Brustein

#forty years #hear #his #later #offstage

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. ↗

— Billie Burke

#forty #her #make #make up #mind

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#convictions #eighteen #forty-five #hide #hills