World Cross Country

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

    “Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
    The other powerless to be born,
    With nowhere yet to rest my head,
    Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
    Their faith, my tears, the world deride—
    I come to shed them at their side.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, ‘The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.’ Five years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)