Quotes tagged ‘Borders’

“In a time in our country when refugee families seek asylum at our borders and are unwillingly separated from one another, we consider the most well-known refugee family in the world. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy Family.”

— Rev Karen Ristine, theguardian.com

“I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm goi…”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Neo, Keanu Reeves, imdb.com

“I thought you liked it when I breached your borders?”

— Genevieve Sparling, Mike Ross, Patrick J. Adams, imdb.com

“Lisa didn't believe in borders, and that is why I know that wherever Lisa is right now, she's everywhere! She's everywhere, and that means she's home!”

— Craig Wright, Barb, Julie Dretzin, imdb.com

“In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“You do not need to have strong opinions on complicated political topics to call out the slaughter of innocent civilians. This is clearly a massacre, and no one should be silent in identifying it as such. Silence is complicity.”

— Charlotte Clymer, twitter.com

“Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.”

— Jim Rogers, amazon.com

“Do you think our obsession with borders and national identity is holding us back from creating a global egalitarian society or are we, as animals in a world of scarce resources, simply destined for a life of tribal infighting?”

— Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com

“A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

“If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”

— Tove Jansson, amazon.com