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Quotes About Crossing

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.
~ Brian Greene
The hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have unlawfully crossed our border are posing a significant threat to the government's ability to effectively enforce our nation's immigration laws.
~ Matthew Whitaker
When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.
~ David Gergen
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
~ Horace
Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
~ James Surowiecki
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~ Mark Twain
Mortality on the Atlantic produced a crisis of enormous proportions, as Africans labored under the cumulative weight of these deaths that remained unresolved. . . . Entrapped, Africans confronted a dual crisis: the trauma of death, and the inability to respond appropriately to death. This indirect violence, arguably, was the most abject experience of the captives' Atlantic crossing.
~ Stephanie E. Smallwood
I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.
~ Stephen Colbert
Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.
~ Anonymous
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
~ Luther Burbank
For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once
~ Jonathan Sacks
He might have wished us good luck," Graystripe complained. "He probably thinks we don't need it," joked Fireheart as they crossed the clearing toward Yellowfang's den.
~ Erin Hunter
We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
~ Viktor Orban
soon as the lady was more than halfway across the street, I swerved to
~ Shanna Swendson
Before they are safe in Kenya, the animals must first cross the Mara River. Zebras go first, then the wildebeests. The tiny gazelles swim last.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Some US leaders invited the destitute of the world to cross their leaking borders with assurances that they would be entitled to the same.
~ Steve Martini
impossible to walk across the street,
~ Jordan Ellenberg
Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
~ Steve Israel
At 5: 41 p.m., Eastern time, cheers go up in Washington, DC. This is the moment when both SEAL teams cross safely into Afghanistan. Nine minutes later, they touch down safely at Jalalabad Air Base. US intelligence will later learn that Pakistani authorities had turned off their radar on this hot Sunday night, and that even if there had been advance warning, their fighter pilots were unwilling to fly in the dark.
~ Bill O'Reilly
They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.
~ Larry McMurtry
That even the most primitive Tamagotchi can inspire these feelings demonstrates that objects cross that line not because of their sophistication but because of the feelings of attachment they evoke.
~ Sherry Turkle