The Crossing Guard Quotes

#1. Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Winston Churchill

#2. Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her. She had asked me to wait on the bench. I had no intention of crossing her. Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner.

Dean Koontz

#3. In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too ...

Lydia Davis

#4. Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling car
the obscure no less than the noble.

Horace

#5. A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.

Nalini Singh

#6. I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Peter Bichsel

#7. When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

Common

#8. Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Joanna Trollope

#9. Most of the blame goes to the director, who seems to have picked up her staging secrets from the school's crossing guard.

David Sedaris

#10. The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

Graham Joyce

#11. Don't let western authors and evangelists fool you, Europeans were NOT killing witches; they were killing WOMEN. If the criminal act was allegedly that of sorcery/witchery, we would have seen similar accounts and charges against men to justify these narratives! They were indeed killing the WOMEN.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#12. Now, as an adult, I appreciate those memories. Mom taught me the importance of compassion for your waitress, your crossing guard, your mailman.

Cate Edwards

#13. For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Eric Alterman

#14. What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Gretchen Rubin

#15. They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

Mark Ruffalo

#16. When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman.

Medgar Evers

#17. The school crossing guard is a zombie?" screams the youngest Smiley. Then she starts crying. "I hugged her once, Mommy! Am I gonna turn into a zombie, too?" "Take it easy, dear," says Aunt Smiley. "It's just a joke. I think. Right, Jamie?

James Patterson