Border Quotes

#1. Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?

Erin Hunter

#2. My first accountant told me, "Evan, nobody cares about your money as much as you do.

John Border

#3. Mexico is an important trading partner, it's the number one trading partner for the state of Texas. We have had dealings with them, shared a border with them. We have had our challenges, but at the end of the day we want a good relationship with Mexico.

Rick Perry

#4. The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

Donald Trump

#5. Twelve is the border between childhood and old.

Lindsay Eagar

#6. Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.

Donald Trump

#7. When I respect the borders
of every relationship,
the love will only become stronger.
Religion of Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Petra Hermans

#8. How little we knew each other, though for centuries our homes had shared walls. How little we will learn, now that all we share is a border.

Amit Majmudar

#9. They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless - but on which side of the border?

James Gleick

#10. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.

Sergio Troncoso

#11. To split the very sea into ours and theirs. Border at the Beach
And More White Sheets

Eileen Granfors

#12. In America, the border of the property would have been gated to keep children and sleepwalkers and drunkards from dropping to their deaths, but there was no division here between safety and stupidity: you had to draw those lines yourself.

Courtney Maum

#13. 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.

Alberto Alvaro Rios

#14. These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.

Paul Cellucci

#15. Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By

Walter D. Mignolo

#16. I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

Jane Siberry

#17. Discipline is when we limit ourselves, put borders around ourselves.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

Richard Engel

#19. I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Edward Blake

#20. To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Gertrude Jekyll

#21. As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

David Perlmutter

#22. I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration ... I can do aerobics in heels.

Eva Longoria

#23. Even days that culminate in a grand battle against an insane ghost and a trip across the border between this world and the spirit realm usually start out pretty normally.

Jim Butcher

#24. Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

Jan Brewer

#25. As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

Carly Fiorina

#26. She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start

Haruki Murakami

#27. Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

Walter Kirn

#28. See ... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall ... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from.

Lewis Black

#29. My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

Rick Larsen

#30. Holy mother of whoring nuns she's hot. Fuck! I haven't just crossed the border into boner territory, Mr Happy's erected a tent from my jeans and is setting up camp there.

Carmen Jenner

#31. I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.

Vita Sackville-West

#32. I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

Matthea Harvey

#33. The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.

Muriel Barbery

#34. When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

Samuel Rutherford

#35. Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

John Cusack

#36. What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Margaret MacMillan

#37. After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.

Marco Rubio

#38. I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

Joy Harjo

#39. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

#40. On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#41. All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a border where you knew things no one else knew.

Jeff VanderMeer

#42. Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

Rose Macaulay

#43. border - shades of vermillion, raw sienna, and burnt umber that would grow bolder and more vibrant with the strengthening

Michelle Isenhoff

#44. The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

Herman Cain

#45. A hymn for freedom;
without border barriers and barbed wire fences.
A hymn for freedom;
without astute words.
A hymn for freedom;
without wars of every man against every man.
A hymn to freedom;
at any time and any place,
because only freedom will set us free.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#46. For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

Narendra Modi

#47. The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

Graham Greene

#48. But we want a record of us where there is 'nothing'
as if by holding each other's waists, we could
find the border and lose it.

Kathleen Fraser

#49. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country ... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

Theodor Herzl

#50. I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

Dean Ambrose

#51. We pay a subsidy. Money coming over the border, they're - there are so many ways that Mexico makes money with us, Bob. There are so many different ways, five in particular, that we will take it out of there.

Donald Trump

#52. I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Norman MacCaig

#53. The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.

Martin McGuinness

#54. Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

Scott Thompson

#55. Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

William Butler Yeats

#56. Did you hear this? They say now Osama bin Laden and his buddy Mullah Omar have left Afghanistan dressed as women. They dressed up as women and went across the border into Pakistan. I think they're going to make a movie about it. They're going to call it 'Some like it Jihad.'

David Letterman

#57. I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.

Rand Paul

#58. Newrose, Oldrose, Quean Anne's lace.
Water, river, stone and sun
Wind over hill, under tree.
Past the border none can see.
Climbing into dark for you,
Will you climb in stars for me?
P.124

Ally Condie

#59. Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.

David Lynch

#60. The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

Lucy Powell

#61. Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

Beto O'Rourke

#62. Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

Justina Chen

#63. Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, cut-glass cheekbones and glazed blue eyes, he's right on the border between dreamboat and spooky freak.

David Edelstein

#64. He looked up, past her, at the bedroom. Finally, a break to the white - but this wasn't much better. Pink carpeting, princess border along the ceiling, white walls, and a gold canopy bed.
"What," he said, "no Barbie dream castle?"
Layne flushed. "Shut up.

Brigid Kemmerer

#65. And I rose
In a rainy autumn
And walked abroad in shower of all my days
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.

Dylan Thomas

#66. The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

Ehud Olmert

#67. It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.

Scott Michael Foster

#68. We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Arlo Guthrie

#69. The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy

Gregory B. Sadler

#70. We can cherish nothing less than our random understanding of death and the earth-shaking love that draws us to one another ... Cleanliness and valor will be our watchwords. Nothing less will get us past the armed sentry and over the mountainous border.

John Cheever

#71. While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

Elton Gallegly

#72. Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you're there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you've been outside the whole time.

David Levithan

#73. We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.

Serzh Sargsyan

#74. Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#75. Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

Iris Marion Young

#76. Embracing amnesty and open borders. Sure, other countries have borders (the ones most people are fleeing from), but discussing the possibility of an American border is smeared as racist - the

Greg Gutfeld

#77. Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

Herman Cain

#78. I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.

Rory Stewart

#79. In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

Leslie Charteris

#80. The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

Milan Kundera

#81. The Crown Prince was camped at Nesson this very minute, on his way to the border to stand up to Akielos. He was a young man serious about his responsibilities, Charls said. Damen had to make an effort not to look over at Laurent, gambling, when he said it.

C.S. Pacat

#82. There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#83. It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

Carly Fiorina

#84. Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better.

George W. Bush

#85. 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

#86. You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

Gail Collins

#87. At the North Carolina border, the dull landscape ended abruptly, as if by decree. Suddenly the countryside rose and fell in majestic undulations, full of creeping thickets of laurel, rhododendron and palmetto.

Bill Bryson

#88. I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

Harrison Salisbury

#89. The causal dimensions, the planes of light, are happiness. They are all different and are all endless. They border the shores of nirvana, which is beyond discussion - a condition of perfection that cannot be expressed.

Frederick Lenz

#90. I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to solve this problem.

Lindsey Graham

#91. Inside the pub, Richard's friends continued to celebrate his forthcoming departure with an enthusiasm that, to Richard, was beginning to border on the sinister.

Neil Gaiman

#92. When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

David Mitchell

#93. A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Otto Von Bismarck

#94. If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

Henry Cuellar

#95. Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Bruce Lee

#96. When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border.

Leonard Woodcock

#97. I believe we need to focus first and foremost - as Donald Trump has done with such force and such passion - on border integrity and building the wall.

Mike Pence

#98. I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

J. D. Souther

#99. Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

Apolo Ohno

#100. Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.

Tommy Lee Jones