#crossed

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bad #beach #blank #change #could

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

— Dan Rather

#after #alligator #creek #crossed #until

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#baked #born #bread #crossed #delaware

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ↗

— Mark Twain

#could #crossed #deteriorate #improve #man

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? ↗

— Richard M. DeVos

#crossed #finish #finish line #had #i

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

#crossed #dipped #door #fingers #holy

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? ↗

— Oliver St. John

#bull #crossed #flow #honey #land

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

— Charles Kettering

#crossed #gotten #ocean #off #ship

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#am #because #believe #blessed #career

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

#back #being #border #credit #crossed