#miles

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#everything #lives #milestones #need #our

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

#around #built #carrier #chicago #december

My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me. ↗

— Sean Astin

#down #drive #drop #drove #got

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. ↗

— Travis Barker

#go #good #good songs #having #hour

The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bar #been #carriage #confidently #had

I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#back #followed #forget #how #hundred

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#back #big #day #every #every day

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#easy #farming #field #looks #mighty

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#been #determined #experiences #i #many