World Cross Country

Famous quotes containing the words world, cross and/or country:

    I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 8:34,5.

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    The country is an archipelago of lakes,—the lake-country of New England.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)