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Quotes About Border

A border cop confessed: "I have a rule now. If it don't speak English, shoot it.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
The media only cares about the Yuma 14 because of the large numbers. But this tragedy goes on every day. It never stops. If only one person dies out there, it is exactly the same horror story.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Aquí en la frontera, caen las hojas. Aunque mis vecinos son todos bárbaros, y tú, tú estás a mil kilómetros de aquí, siempre hay dos tazas en mi mesa.
~ John Fowles
We'll cross into Chavez County in about two miles.
~ John Grisham
he exchanged it for the Hermitage, a vast and isolated border citadel in the valley of the Hermitage
~ John Guy
The exchange turned the Hepburns into powerful border lords.
~ John Guy
from which the western and central sectors of the border with England were controlled
~ John Guy
than of a border skirmish that went tragically wrong.
~ John Guy
But her decision to cross the border was a catastrophic mistake.
~ John Guy
As a person who grew up in a border town, it is important to me that I use my education and my art to tell human stories of an otherwise neglected and marginalized community.
~ Raul Castillo
Ultimately, thousands of children were separated from adults in the span of a month between May and June, typically one of the higher months for border crossings. Hundreds would remain separated from their parents for years, incurring incalculable psychological damage.
~ Maggie Haberman
There has always been a lot of criticism of Australia's border protection policies from New Zealand, but it is one of those cases where the Kiwis effectively free ride on our security. As at 2017, NZ had taken in 33,000 refugees since the Second World War. Australia took in that many in 2016 and 2017 alone.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
~ Edward Blake
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
~ Robert Burns
The last twelve hours had been tense, everyone seeing the Mexican border looming large, and beyond it, the wide world into which someone like Vasquez could vanish. But with each move the abnorm made, Cooper got better at predicting the next. Like peeling away layers of tissue paper to reveal the object beneath, a vague form began to resolve into the pattern that defined his target.
~ Marcus Sakey
The practice continues throughout the country. Immigrants can feel "on the border" almost anywhere in the territory of the U.S., and have been subject to such raids in many Northern cities. The key is surprise and drama, especially sudden unexpected violence, or simply the threat of it, which instills wariness and unease in whole immigrant families as they come to and from work. In
~ Unknown
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, 'Well, what do you need?'
~ Steven Wright
Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.
~ Ronald Reagan
McNelly's Special Forces were also known for committing brutalities across the border, and in Mexico they were considered outlaws with licenses to kill. In 1875, McNelly and his Rangers crossed the border without federal authorization and attacked the Mexican village of Cachuttas.
~ Unknown
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~ Pablo Casals
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.
~ Marya Hornbacher
The party worked the cattle in their pen into such a dither that now they won't rest until they get the giant wall that real-life, as-seen-on-TV billionaire Donald Trump promises will save them from all those measles-infected rapists pouring over the border. Not
~ Matt Taibbi
What do we do with chaos? Creativity has an answer. We are told by those who have studied the processes of nature that creativity happens at the border between chaos and order. Chaos is a prelude to creativity. We need to learn, as every artist needs to learn, to
~ Matthew Fox
North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.
~ Unknown