Cross Quotes

2149 Cross quotes by 1410 unique authors

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… — Philip Yancey
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box… — John Steinbeck
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's… — Hermann Hesse
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told… — Jonathan Safran Foer
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place… — Italo Calvino
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. — Juvenal
In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet. — Soren Kierkegaard
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?… — Thor Heyerdahl
The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever… — Thomas Wolfe
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. — Paulo Coelho
I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom. — Jen Lancaster
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn. — Oprah Winfrey
In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face… — Melissa Bank
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting… — Alberto Manguel
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. — Virginia Woolf
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. — Janet Fitch
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go… — Charles Spurgeon
How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement… — Che Guevara
No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac
No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love. — Max Lucado
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

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