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Quotes About Crossing

Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.
~ Unknown
Mary was forewarned. When she reached the river crossing, she had three thousand men
~ John Guy
On the 16th, she embarked on a fishing boat to cross Solway Firth, landing in England
~ John Guy
But her decision to cross the border was a catastrophic mistake.
~ John Guy
When you cross the street, take my hand
~ John Lennon
After crossing the Rubicon—the real one—in 49
~ John Lewis Gaddis
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.
~ Hugh Grant
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
~ Mal Peet
How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
despite the efforts of ancient writers to embellish them with dramatic appearances of the gods, uncanny omens and prophetic dreams – the reality of the surroundings was probably mundane. For us, 'to cross the Rubicon' has come to mean 'to pass the point of no return'. It did not mean that to Caesar.
~ Mary Beard
Well, it's a little harder in New York. It's not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can't cross the street, they're not going to take it well. Southern California? They'll wait. It's cool man. In New York, they're like, 'Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.'
~ Matthew Rhys
Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nascimento e morte ocorreram em simultâneo como dois barcos que se cruzam em sentido inverso. - A vida são fósforos, acendendo-se uns em outros que se apagam.
~ Mia Couto
under the same cross that Christopher Columbus's three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.
~ Unknown
There is nothing exceptional about today, except that today can be a day of new beginnings, of crossing lines in the sand, of deciding that you are sick of prison, and you want freedom.
~ Mike Erre
Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
~ Moms Mabley
In my language there is a saying: "Ndiwelimilambo enamagama" (I have crossed famous rivers). It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it.
~ Nelson Mandela
Before you cross the street, take my hand, Life is what happens to you While you're busy making other plans…
~ Unknown
It was a mammoth undertaking, throwing an army across the Channel,
~ Unknown
I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?
~ Patricia MacLachlan
Paths that cross will cross again.
~ Patti Smith