Top 706 Crossed Quotes & Sayings

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I've crossed paths with fanatical fans all over the world.

A pair of star-crossed lovers.

Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

I am not in favor of killing - that for me is the line not to be crossed.

You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

The stars crossed and The Boy wished he could have hung himself on them.

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

The star-crossed lovers

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

I've crossed adulthood, and I feel like lots of people are fighting that.

When you worked with Vinod Khanna, you knew that you would never be double-crossed.

All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned ... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

President Trump has often crossed the line of what constitutes decent behavior.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth her sister missed her too much, was way too sad, so she crossed some paths that would not have crossed, took some moments in her hand shook them up and spilled them like dice over the living world. It worked. The boy with the guitar collided with her sister. "There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.

...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival is called by this name. For it was on this day that the Children of Israel crossed over out of Egypt, and the Son of God crossed over from this world to His Father. What gain is it to celebrate unless you imitate Him Whom you worship; that is, unless you cross over from Egypt, that is, from the darkness of evildoing to the light of virtue, from the love of this world to the love of your heavenly home?

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.

All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

I shake my legs constantly when I'm sitting crossed legged.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Fingers crossed, you'll hear a lot more of me.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

Cause getting your dreams It's strange, but it seems A little -- well -- complicated There's a kind of a sort of : cost There's a couple of things get : lost There are bridges you cross You didn't know you crossed Until you've crossed.

When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

I had 10 No. 1 country records before I ever crossed over, and the only reason I ever crossed over was because of a fad. It was that 'Urban Cowboy' thing, where everybody was riding fake bulls.

The rogue states have to be told that there are lines that cannot be crossed.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good roles to come my way.

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

I've crossed many cultural and gender barriers as a woman.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

I can honestly say that, growing up, it never crossed my mind that I could ever make anything. I could write articles about things, which is why I wanted to be a professor. I loved watching movies and writing about them and teaching them, but it never crossed my mind that I could make something.

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge

An oyster may be crossed in love.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.