#miles

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#back #big #came #children #cooking

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#career #davis #every #his #master

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#american #american music #davis #doing #forms

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#country #cross #cross country #days #down

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#death #draws #grow #meek #near

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#climb #fellow #fence #good #neighbor

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#criticized #davis #delved #embraced #fully

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#end #every #faces #friend #grows

I love performing in front of an audience and seeing smiles on the kids' faces. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#faces #front #i #i love #kids