Borders famous quotes
04-27-2025
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
-- A. K. Antony -
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
-- Abdullah Ocalan -
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
-- Alan Lightman -
My skin was the border between the world and me.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
-- Alexander Herzen -
We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
-- Allen West -
The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.
-- Amitava Kumar -
It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.
-- Amy Purdy -
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
-- Anna Lindh -
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.
-- Anne Fadiman -
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.
-- Anthony Burgess -
We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.
-- Arlo Guthrie -
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
-- Astro Teller -
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
-- Barry McCaffrey -
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
-- Bela Karolyi -
This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.
-- Benjamin Zephaniah -
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
-- Bill Frist -
The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.
-- Bobby Jindal -
In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
-- Bruce Lee -
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 another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.
-- Cheech Marin -
No border that touches Israel is always secure.
-- Chuck Hagel -
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
-- Cory Doctorow -
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
-- Daniel Tammet -
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
-- Dario Fo -
Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.
-- Dave Reichert -
We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards
-- David Blunkett -
We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.
-- David Dewhurst -
I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy.
-- David Dewhurst -
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has apparently just slipped across the border into Pakistan.
-- David Letterman -
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
-- Denis Kearney -
We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.
-- Dennis Weaver -
It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.
-- Dick Thornburgh -
God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.
-- Donald Tusk -
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
-- Edward Blake -
The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
-- Ehud Olmert -
The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.
-- Eiji Yoshikawa -
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.
-- Elliott Chaze -
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.
-- Emily Rodda -
Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders
-- Enrique Pena Nieto -
Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?
-- Erin Hunter -
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
-- Fatos Nano -
If goods don't cross borders, armies will.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.
-- Frei Otto -
I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs
-- Gary Miller -
Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.
-- George Sterling -
The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.
-- Gijs de Vries -
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
-- Gijs de Vries -
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
-- Goldwin Smith -
All Americans (from the vast continent America) were, are, or will be border crossers.
-- Guillermo Gomez-Pena -
Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning.
-- Gunter Grass -
Private travel into foreign countries can be requested without conditions [...]. Permission will be granted instantly. Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR into the FRG or Berlin (West).
-- Gunter Schabowski -
When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.
-- Heinrich Himmler -
In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?
-- Helen Clark -
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
-- Hervey Allen -
Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.
-- Howard Coble -
After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.
-- Howie Carr -
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
-- Hu Shih -
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality
-- Iris Marion Young -
The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners, and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Palestine. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.
-- Ismail Haniyeh -
Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.
-- Ivan Bagramyan -
The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.
-- J. D. Hayworth -
I'm in the action, but I'm not in the action. A lot of the interpreting I do sometimes borders on performance. It gives me a personality and a presence to show the importance of interpreters in the life of a person who is Deaf.
-- Jack Jason -
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
-- Jack Tatum -
Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.
-- Jacob Zuma -
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
-- Jacques Chirac -
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
-- James Surowiecki -
And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.
-- Jan Brewer -
A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.
-- Jane Jacobs -
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.
-- Jane Jacobs -
What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.
-- Janet Napolitano -
Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work
-- Janet Napolitano -
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.
-- Jascha Heifetz -
We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?
-- Jay Leno -
The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be
-- Jean-Jacques Nattiez -
I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.
-- Jeb Bush -
Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
-- Jeb Bush -
It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger.
-- Jeffrey Bernard -
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.
-- Jerome Corsi -
We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.
-- Jim Ramstad -
I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.
-- Joe Lieberman -
This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.
-- John Boehner -
The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected
-- John Culberson -
The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents
-- John Culberson
