Top 272 Barriers Quotes

Secure, safe borders with physical barriers, proper technology, manpower, and a sufficient number of judges is attainable and important to the security of our nation. We must also treat these children at the border with compassion and decency.
Jeff Van Drew
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus
I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can’t.
J. J. Watt
The best thing that you can do to break down any of the barriers that women face in sports is to be over prepared – know your value, but also know the subject matter that you’re covering.
Maria Taylor
Baseball was my goal from a young age, but gambling had significantly fewer barriers to entry.
James Holzhauer
Somebody should be able to come to Canada tomorrow and have success. If there’s any barriers, if there’s any racism, we’re going to send a real message that there’s zero tolerance.
Erin O’Toole
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship.
Harbhajan Singh
Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls’ education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the companies on one side and the government and regulatory agencies on the other and help them identify obstacles to trade and what has to be done to tackle them.
Arancha Gonzalez
Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are. Ask what would help. And then deliver it.
Jack Monroe
Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
Bob Ney
I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he’s amazing.
Darius Rucker
I think people always want to hear that there are barriers that exist for us. But the more I started to realize artists that are kind of like me in my lane, like, if they were white or African-American, they often had trouble because it wasn’t the quality of their music: they just didn’t stick out.
Awkwafina
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
Nat King Cole
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
Estelle
There are five main barriers to women entering politics – I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.
Jo Swinson
Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of

Usually, when people think of marquetry, they think of Dutch 17th-century furniture with inlaid flowers and jugs. Our goal is to break down the barriers between old and new, to combine traditional marquetry techniques with a modern idiom.
David Linley
The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
Goldwin Smith
By all means, let’s have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?
Lloyd Dorfman
I want barriers to be broken down for women.
Christen Press
Not everyone is in love and nor does everyone have the courage for love. In our country, most people simply fantasise about being in love. I don’t know about other countries but in India, to love is to battle with innumerable social and religious barriers.
Ravish Kumar
Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It’s going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.
Ariel Garten
People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it’s the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
P. J. O’Rourke
There were giant scale barriers to becoming a nuclear power, whereas launching a cyberattack requires only some coding capability, a laptop and an Internet connection.
Ben Sasse
In France, disco was an artistic progression that might not have had the same social stakes. Also, the language barriers – like with hip-hop, in France, the focus is more on the personality, of the flow of the music, rather than the lyrics themselves.
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.
Josiah Royce
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
Louise L. Hay
Breaking stereotypes and my own barriers is great fun, because that’s what leads to growth.
Kirti Kulhari
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
George Washington
Activision and Blizzard both believe that we’re in an expanding market where we can reach more people across multiple platforms, geographies and age groups. Both of our companies are positioned very well to take advantage of those trends to keep lowering the barriers to get more people into gaming.
Michael Morhaime
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky
I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.
Martha McSally
Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts.
Hilary Knight
Fear is the wrong response to technological unemployment. Focusing on economic flexibility and adaptability – with special attention to eliminating the barriers we’ve accidentally created to the mobility of the working classes – is the right response to technological disruption.
Joe Lonsdale
In my home district, exports support more than 100,000 jobs. Imagine how many more jobs we can create by breaking down the barriers that prevent Chicago-made goods and services from entering new markets.
Mike Quigley
The physical nature of the Globe is going to break down a lot of barriers.
Sam Wanamaker
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that.
Oscar Peterson
Making it compulsory to show identification before voting risks compromising a basic human right by creating further barriers for people who may no longer have an acceptable form of ID, thanks to the often unpredictable and chaotic lifestyle homelessness can cause.
Dawn Foster
If women are the key to Africa’s future – and I believe they are – we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.
Richard Attias
I think, ‘How could anybody mock a good pop song?’ It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type of social barrier that you can possibly have. It can deal with the most difficult subjects, even if it abstracts the subject matter.
Mika
Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.
Sushma Swaraj
Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Science is the one culture that’s truly global – protons, proteins and Pythagoras’s Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.
Martin Rees
Sport doesn’t know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance… how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
Martina Navratilova
I had the world against me. I was told I shouldn’t be doing sport and that I wouldn’t go to the Paralympics. I’ve had so many barriers.
Kadeena Cox
I would like to reach out to the global audience; Music is beyond all the culture and language barriers.
D. Imman
People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you’re entering a world that’s pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don’t have the same language as you do.
Lawrence Wright
For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it's a

For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it’s a different mentality.
Beppe Grillo
While I don’t face the same barriers as so many people in our country, I have seen love that transcends borders, race, and country of origin.
Cary Kennedy
Women are breaking down barriers, I’m so grateful and honored to be a part of it.
Mandy Rose
It is hard for me to understand why we tolerate so many barriers to agriculture trade when America is the No. 1 producer of agriculture products. I think opening up markets – more markets for agricultural sales is a very high priority for us.
Robert Lighthizer