Quotes About Crossing

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria.

Crossing the Black Water

It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.

Not again, Draper, " Frank sighed. "You're not going to stop us from crossing. You and I know that the one thing the Government does even more poorly than provide healthcare is secure its borders.

Conversion, like conquest, can be a process of crossing over into the domain–territorial, emotional, religious, or cultural–of someone else and claiming it as one's own.

This nervous action, which he sometimes performed every few minutes, was like a man crossing himself before an alter- the Drugs; the Cash; and the Holy Ghost of Credit.

But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross--not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.

Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.

We had just crossed the widest street in the world.

Why was I so hostile to Moira B. that day when she was, really, a natural ally? What it was, I suppose, is that Moira was suggesting she and I cross some line together, and I wasn't prepared for that yet.

Boatman, she says. There's a tale I once heard, perhaps as a small child. Of an island full of gentle woods and streams, yet also a place of strange qualities. Many cross to it, yet for each who dwells there, it's as if he walks the island alone...

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

This form of interspecies leap is common, not rare; about 60 percent of all human infectious diseases currently known either cross routinely or have recently crossed between other animals and us.

Who'd have thought our tracks would cross again like this? where's the time got to? and why is life so full of goodbyes? as we part in the yard roosters are crowing in the trees and we cry a little drunk and happy tears threading our cheeks.

Lydia is constantly reminded that her education has no purchase here, that she has no access to the kind of information that has real currency on this journey. Among migrants, everyone knows more than she does. How do you find a coyote, make sure he's reputable, pay for your crossing, all without getting ripped off?

to shed the skin of her anguish and leave it behind her in the Mexican dirt. But the moment of the crossing has already passed, and she didn't even realize it had happened. She

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I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

I cross over the river to Trastevere

I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.

Edges are magic, too; there's a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.

There are air-quality issues that cross state lines. There are water-quality issues, obviously, that cross state lines.

In my America, you're allowed to cross the state borders. That's the America I know.