Trespassing Quotes

• It's not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.

  Dewitt Jones

  Boundaries

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• The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Vision, Redemption

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• I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Illegal, Knows

  Montgomery County, MD, Journal, February 16, 1988.

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• As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  New York, Journey, Islands

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.

  David Baldacci

  Attention, Warning, Waste

  David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

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• Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.

  James Madison

  Rights, Order, Second Amendment

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.468

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• FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

  Brandon Mull

  Stones

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• If we want TRULY EXTRAORDINARY VISION then you have to continually expand your horizons, take risks.  If we don’t push our edge we’ll never expand our view.. It’s not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.

  Dewitt Jones

  Views, Risk, Vision

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• Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Happiness, Law, Mars

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis".

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• The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

  Taylor Swift

  Blame, Trouble, Warning Signs

  Song: I Knew You Were Trouble

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• Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Sublime, Forgiving, Enemy

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• If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Territory, Facts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

  Aimee Friedman

  Mom, Ocean, Marine

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• This land is your land, this land is my land

  Woody Guthrie

  Land, Redwoods, Trekking

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility when you're trespassing. I think you haven't seen a film on volcanoes like that before. It's not National Geographic. It is wildly imaginative and very poetic and has a sense of awe that you normally do not see in films.

  Werner Herzog

  Responsibility, Thinking, Volcanoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Parenting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree.

  Marguerite Henry

  Tree, Looks, Critters

  Marguerite Henry (2012). “Misty of Chincoteague”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, War, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

  Robert Moss

  Distance, Twilight, Bridges

  Robert Moss (2010). “Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death”, p.158, New World Library

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• we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

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• Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.

  Carolyn Keene

  Opposites, Silence, Missing

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• There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

  Matt Taibbi

  Two, Groups, Fever

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.46, Black Cat

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• It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Successful, Science, Discipline

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