Quotes for All
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: ‘You are now entering Imperium.’ Yet it was a very old road and … Read more
The history of American women is all about leaving home – crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. Gail Collins
Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me…I’m just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street. Gabrielle Zevin
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying – the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea Ernest Shackleton
For me, it’s church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line. Eric Williams
And yet, over the years I’ve met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. … Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a … Read more
It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist…[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity. Enoch Powell
Wouldn’t a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm? Emile Chartier
My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. Emanuel Celler
I know that experts say you’re more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn’t make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street. Ellen DeGeneres