Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 196
Eddie August Schneider (1911–1940) American aviator
[Look Out, Lindbergh - Here I Come, Flying magazine, http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Eddie_August_Schneider_September_1931_Flying_magazine_page_1_of_4.png, September 1, 1930, Eddie August Schneider]
“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)
“Kabul is… a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: 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
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
“Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.”
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book
Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
http://cerebusfangirl.com/artists/0805talk.php
“It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten”
Lobão (1957) Brazilian musician
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)
“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
