Quotes About Crossing Borders

#1. From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.

Paul Theroux

#3. I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Sherman Alexie

#4. If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family

Brigham Young

#5. Love must become the essence of our being

Sunday Adelaja

#6. It's a small piece of awfulness.

Erika Swyler

#7. If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

James Hillman

#8. There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners' ...

Cesar Millan

#9. How is it that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders?

Chuck Norris

#10. We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

Sergei Lavrov

#11. Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

Louie Anderson

#12. Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chris Cannon

#13. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Steven Johnson

#14. 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.

Randy Quarles

#15. When crossing someone's borders you have to be prepared to engage in a war that is far more brutal than if it were to take place on neutral territory.

Sylvester Stallone

#16. Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

Robert Ludlum

#17. 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

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

Viviane Reding

#19. What good is an edge if you can't push someone over it?

Dannika Dark

#20. Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.

Grace Coolidge

#21. 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.

Ali Smith

#22. It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.

Buzz Aldrin