Crossing The Border Quotes

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. My mother, come to think of it, would have been a welcome sight jut now ... "There are no such things as ghosts," she would have told me, and of course I would have believed her

Susanna Kearsley

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

Kim De Blecourt

#14. President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

David Powers

#15. The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

Pete McCloskey

#16. 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

#17. My dad always used to say that with everything in life, there's a game-changing moment. The one moment everything else hinges upon, but you hardly ever know it at the time.

Jenny Han

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Olivia lit a cigarette and said, God, if I worried about running into old boyfriends, I couldn't go anywhere!

Jeffrey Eugenides

#21. We use the Heidelberg Catechism in our worship. Sometimes we read it responsively. Other times I'll work it into my communion liturgy. I'll quote it in my sermons from time to time. I've seen the Catechism used effectively as Sunday school material.

Kevin DeYoung

#22. Without love, life will be a great mistake.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

Saoirse Ronan

#24. 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

#25. The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

George Alexiou

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

Luis Alberto Urrea

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

Peter Nadas

#28. Selfless service gives contentment and change the vision of seeing things invisible to others.

Kishore Bansal

#29. 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

#30. I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

Corey Stoll

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

Viviane Reding

#32. 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

#33. I watch 'House of Cards,' which was great. I don't watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it.

Joanne Kelly

#34. How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

Cass Elliot

#35. My parents can take themselves off on a scenic tour of hell before they tell me who my friends will be, Gan said pleasantly.

Mercedes Lackey