Border Quotes
376 quotes by 311 authors
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Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity…
— Bell Hooks
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We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments.…
— Adam Rex
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Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark,…
— Justina Chen
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Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people…
— Shane Claiborne
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There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade…
— Ann Aguirre
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I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a…
— Stephen King
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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day…
— Tove Jansson
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything…
— Don DeLillo
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at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one…
— Cecelia Ahern
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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…
— Eric Weiner
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There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at…
— Michael Ondaatje
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You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having…
— Daniel Handler
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Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border…
— Rick Riordan
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That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the…
— Orson Scott Card
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The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you…
— Lauren Oliver
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My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then…
— Justin Halpern
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God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.
— Dillon Burroughs
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I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word…
— Haruki Murakami
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"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore…
— Robert Anton Wilson
Who Wrote These Border Quotes
311 authors contributed a total of 376 Border Quotes, led by these top contributors: