Across Quotes
3257 Across quotes by 2329 unique authors
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I never travel across this great nation without experiencing a feeling of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that we have and are. As I see…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there…
— Ambrose Bierce
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If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing…
— Jack Handey
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Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New…
— Helge Ingstad
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As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best…
— Rosalind Wiseman
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I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world.…
— Reeva Steenkamp
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I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at…
— Mark Burnett
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There's something much more fundamental about Mitt Romney. He seems so old-fashioned when it comes to women, and I think that comes across, and I…
— Hilary Rosen
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If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right,…
— John Naisbitt
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale.…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.
— Unknown Author
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar…
— Richard Bach
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There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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**** it, holler them across.
— Jubal Early
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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
— W G Sebald
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It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the…
— Jack Handey
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One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and…
— David Platt
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Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,…
— Terry Pratchett
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some…
— Celia Thaxter
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Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have…
— Jack Handey
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Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that…
— Jack Handey
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Isn't it funny how one minute life can be such a struggle, and the next minute you're just driving real fast, swerving back and forth…
— Jack Handey
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Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were…
— Jack Handey
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