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Quotes About Border

The village of Gretna Green lay in the county of Dumfriesshire, just north of the border between England and Scotland. In defiance of the strict marriage laws of England, hundreds of couples had traveled the coaching road from London, through Carlisle, to Gretna Green. They came on foot, by carriage or horseback, seeking an asylum, where they could say their marriage vows and return to England as man and wife.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom.
~ Unknown
Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally.
~ Jim Butcher
the border's been waggling back and forth like a hooker at a dockworker's convention.
~ Jim Butcher
There is an impulse for vengeance among certain men south of the border that leaves even the sturdiest Sicilian gasping for fresh air.
~ Jim Harrison
It was a serious offense to invite a Deep Witch to cross the border of the Five Kingdoms. They had been banished many years before, together with werewolves and sorcerers.
~ Unknown
First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.
~ Vladimir Putin
Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.
~ William Empson
Here it is. I left this for you. As though an ancient library had breached the border into now, into the life of Aaron Levy, who had not until this moment understood how powerfully he needed something like this. He extended his fingertips. "Wash your hands," Helen snapped from behind him.
~ Rachel Kadish
But she was wrong. Loneliness was insidious. It knew no border or boundary, was without mercy, and couldn't be bribed. That was what Mary had attempted to do, bargain with the deep well of pain within her by marrying a man who by his own word would never love her.
~ Debbie Macomber
I think we need to go to a system... where we have tough enforcement. Where if you're here illegally, you're going to be deported.
~ Mike Coffman
Swordsmanship is the art used at the border between life and death. It is easy to throw away your life and proceed toward death, but it is difficult not to make life and death two... Entrust life to life, and entrust death to death; but do not make this mind two... With this, you will gain complete freedom.
~ Unknown
Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes; and so the camel driver and the sailor see Despina, a border city between two deserts.
~ Italo Calvino
Cada ciudad recibe su forma del desierto al que se opone; y así ven el camellero y el marinero a Despina, ciudad fronteriza entre dos desiertos.
~ Italo Calvino
What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?
~ Italo Calvino
How often are drugs brought across the border from Mexico? Getting drugs from Mexico into the United States is big business, and Mexican cartels spare little expense or violence to accomplish their mission. One estimate puts the annual value of drugs trafficked into the United States from Mexico at $39 billion.
~ Unknown
Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you're moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided any more, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border is a line on a map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere.
~ Damon Galgut
These had explicitly denied that the demilitarized zone (DMZ) was an international border separating two independent states.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
As we are aware, Indo-China border is undemarcated. We have to be very vigilant while guarding the borders.
~ Rajnath Singh
Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.
~ Kim Jee-woon
If you are in this country illegally, stealing a job from an American citizen, I'm going to do all I can to put an American citizen in that job and not somebody that has crossed our border, come into the country and violated our laws.
~ Virgil Goode
We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use.
~ Dianne Feinstein
Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
~ John Shadegg