Border Quotes

376 quotes by 311 authors

That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent… — Raymond Carver
A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so… — Daniel Handler
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost.… — Nick Flynn
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook… — Michael Collins
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their… — Emma Bull
But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well… — Robin McKinley
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in… — Madeleine Albright
This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way… — George Saunders
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life… — Milan Kundera
Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn… — Kay Ryan
...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… — Rohinton Mistry
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Youâ€™re not dead, but youâ€™re not alive, either. Youâ€™re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. Youâ€™re a ghost with a beat- ing heart.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland. — Laurie Halse Anderson
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert

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