Eight Mile Quotes

#1. My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Alice Cooper

#2. An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#3. My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

Mika Brzezinski

#4. The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

William Scranton

#5. Westmoreland recognized that the only way to seal South Vietnam's eight hundred-mile western border was to shut down the infiltration routes.

Robert D. Sander

#6. Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

Janine Benyus

#7. Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Stan Musial

#8. The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#9. Manuel was sent to Harvard, where he developed a profound contempt for American culture. 'The Americans,' he would say, 'brush their teeth before kissing and remember a page to answer a question.

Warren Eyster

#10. One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Margaret Halsey

#11. With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

Chris Sharma

#12. Do we have a plan?" she asked.
"Yes," he told her. "Shoot everything that moves.

David Wellington

#13. There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you.

Mia Asher

#14. Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Amity Gaige

#15. To be honest, I feel like I think too much. So I like working out because it makes me kind of relax.

Heather Graham

#16. For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

Gary Locke

#17. Hurting with words is easy," Mairy replied, echoing Leesha's earlier statement, "it's healing with them what's hard.

Peter V. Brett