“The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)”

“Sometimes I get this crazy dream
And I just take off in my car
But you can travel on ten thousand miles
And still stay where you are.”

Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician

“I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.”

Abby Sunderland (1993) Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor

“Come home with me, Acheron. I’ll make it well worth your while. (Artemis)
I have a headache. (Acheron)
You’ve had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis)
And you’ve had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

“Momentum may be roughly described as quantity motion. A body moving at a speed of say twenty an hour, has a certain quantity of motion. If the body goes forty miles an hour there is twice as motion; or if twice as much matter goes twenty miles hour, there is also twice as much motion. Momentum is measured by the quantity of matter moving at a rate mass \times velocity.”

William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher

“A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“Kabul is… a thousand tragedies per square mile.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.”

Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist

“April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves… a butterfly
Floats and balances”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet