Border Crossing Quotes

#1. Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.

Kim De Blecourt

#2. 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

#3. We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.

Jan Egeland

#4. I love reading and am always stuck in one labrinth of letters or other

Sarah Vowell

#5. The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

Rick Perry

#6. As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

Joy-Ann Reid

#7. A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.

Timothy Murphy

#8. Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border."
"Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket.
"Grazie."
"De nada," Dan said.
"That's Spanish," Amy whispered.
"No, it's whatever," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think.

Jude Watson

#9. L.A. is a constellation of microclimates and microcosms, a library with dozens of special collections. A 20-minute drive can bring a temperature change of 15 degrees. Crossing an intersection can feel like crossing a national border.

Meghan Daum

#10. I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.

Martial

#11. In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.

Douglas Coupland

#12. If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized

Robyn Davidson

#13. As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.

Charles Martin

#14. After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

Howie Carr

#15. In other words, to whatever extent migrants are crossing the border and thereby (ostensibly) taking other people's jobs, it is only because the economy of Mexico has been considerably undermined by the policies of our country.

Tim Wise

#16. When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.

Elvis Costello

#17. I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

John Green

#18. Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#19. we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.

Peter Nadas

#20. I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Michelle Shocked

#21. 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

#22. And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.

Imbolo Mbue

#23. I will not apologize for my warriors crossing the border that seperates our Clans. But if you can find a way to keep us alive without stealing prey, I will listen. For the sake of old times.

Victoria Holmes

#24. Saliva has antibacterial properties. It also has things called nerve growth factor, skin growth factor, histatins which help with wound closure. So when you see an animal licking a wound or even a mom kissing a child's boo-boo, there's some, there's some good science behind why one might do this.

Mary Roach

#25. It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

Viviane Reding

#26. You are all human but what makes, what makes you really really spiritual? What you are here for. What you are really here for? What you are really here for is to make a fundamental change upwards. It is simply crossing a border from one place in your mind to another. That's all.

Roy Masters

#27. Like I'm beautiful. Like I'm the only woman who's ever affected you this way. Like in a room full of other women, you'd only see me.

Maya Banks