Crossing Quotes
263 quotes by 246 authors
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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing…
— James Salter
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Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at…
— Bruce C. Hafen
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Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
— Moms Mabley
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As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
— John Glenn
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It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.
— Viviane Reding
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Style is how you see the world and how the world sees you. It isn't today and it isn't tomorrow; it isn't a dress or…
— Carol Edgarian
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of…
— Piet Mondrian
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And…
— Grace Coolidge
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the…
— M. King Hubbert
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Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind…
— Gautama Buddha
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A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
— Doug Linder
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When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
— Mother Teresa
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Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without…
— Nancy Lancaster
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I've really come to learn that bisexuality is a true, legitimate sexual orientation. It's not about crossing over from straight to gay, which is an…
— Leisha Hailey
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I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part…
— Robert McCloskey
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True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Crossing Quotes
246 authors contributed a total of 263 Crossing Quotes, led by these top contributors: