Quotes of: Crossing Keyword

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

The Hand of Oberon

The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour.

Half of a Yellow Sun

To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.

Hyperion

Babe, I don't know you and my has a very short guest list. Consider my belt the velvet rope no one crosses without an express invitation.

Illusion

When we forget our essential similarities, we forget how to get along, and that cannot but lead to prejudice, discrimination, and eventually, conflict.

James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?

Knots and Crosses

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car.

Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

In the Shadow of the Cross

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

Summer Crossing

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.

Shaping the dream

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

Nine Kinds of Naked

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

The Last Crossing

I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.

Lily's Crossing

She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

The Last Crossing

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.

La Faute de l'abbé Mouret

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Letters and Papers from Prison

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

The Simple Truth

Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

These Strange Ashes