#cross

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#free #freedom #had #i #land

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath. ↗

— Tom Waits

#always #america #beneath #big #cadillac

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#capitalism #does #getting #money #more

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#cities #crisis #economic #economic crisis #financial

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it. ↗

— Gene Ween

#christopher #cross #i #like #proud

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it! ↗

— Bryan White

#best #both #country #cross #did

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. ↗

— E. B. White

#education #english #getting #judgment #like

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#benefit #child #courage #crossover #doubt

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cross #drama #ends #enter #eternity

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly