Top 100 A Bridge Quotes
#1. I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.
Anna Kavan
#2. I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
R.C. Sproul
#3. It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.
Jodi Picoult
#4. Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?
Steve Toltz
#5. When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.
Steven Wright
#6. I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.
Marina Abramovic
#7. I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.
Dylan Moran
#8. Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes.
Suzanne Young
#9. When I stopped trying to block my sadness and let it move me instead, it led me to a bridge with people on the other side. ... I learned that sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#10. Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.
Andy Stern
#11. The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.
John Fowles
#12. Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
Christian Lous Lange
#13. I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T.D. Jakes
#14. A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned.
Scott Wilbanks
#15. You're the most annoying girl on the planet. You make me want to throw myself off a bridge. And, unfortunately, I am one hundred percent, head-over-heels, crazy in love with you.
Cecily White
#16. I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
Gordon Strachan
#17. A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.
Claire Denis
#18. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side.
George R R Martin
#19. I don't know what I believe anymore, and really, I try not to think about it. But the psychologists say that suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's the old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you, too?" Apparently the answer is yes. To
Suzanne Young
#20. I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
Sean Lennon
#21. I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.
David Levithan
#22. I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#23. I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
Zach Condon
#24. Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
Andy Goldsworthy
#25. No matter where you are, you are connected to me by a bridge and that is our love.
Debasish Mridha
#26. When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#28. The structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it
Robert Musil
#29. The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
Aberjhani
#30. Anyone can design a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands.
Anonymous
#31. When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.
Nicole Richie
#32. George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge ... you can't hear him talk.
Steven Wright
#33. If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.
Douglas Coupland
#34. I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
William J. Clinton
#35. All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!
Rumi
#36. It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
Vin Scully
#37. Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.
Jason Schwartzman
#39. Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
Frantz Fanon
#41. It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.
Robert Benchley
#42. He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
Charles Bukowski
#43. Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.
Sathya Sai Baba
#44. I had forgotten how wonderful it is to stand on a bridge and catch the scent of rain in the air. I had forgotten how much I need to be a part of water, wind, sky.
Alice Steinbach
#45. My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
Dana Goodyear
#46. The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.
Narendra Modi
#47. Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.
Richie Norton
#48. Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.
Isaac D'Israeli
#49. When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.
Joseph Straus
#50. Negative thoughts are an obstacle to happiness;
positive thoughts are a bridge to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
Ed Stoppard
#52. The unheard to hear - the unseen to see - the more to be understood: transparency. A purposeful guiding to a place of progression where ends come together and a bridge exists for the seeking to cross over onto a road of new and lasting hope.
Calvin W. Allison
#53. Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.
Demetri Martin
#54. Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
Henry A. Kissinger
#55. Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.
Hu Jintao
#56. The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it
Val McDermid
#57. All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.
Holly Near
#58. Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ...
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions
Adil Adam Memon
#59. I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
Neil Gaiman
#60. One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
A. B. Yehoshua
#61. They had then got to a bridge over the river, where
Aesop
#62. Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
Ai Weiwei
#63. I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.
Gregory David Roberts
#64. Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is the Great Wall of China between them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream ... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
Harry Styles
#68. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
David Walker
#69. I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.
Narendra Modi
#70. Emma gasped. "You drank faerie wine? Cristina! That's how you black out and wake up the next day under a bridge with a tattoo that says I LOVE HELICOPTERS.
Cassandra Clare
#71. Imagine, my brother signed. Imagine if somebody built a bridge right outside our window and we could just walk across the highway and be on the other side.
Jacqueline Woodson
#72. They were coming back to his mother's neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper.
Nathan Hill
#73. Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.
Leo Tolstoy
#74. If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it.
Jacqueline E. Smith
#75. Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers.
Marty Rubin
#76. A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
Erica Jong
#77. The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
Barry Humphries
#78. You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT
Rachel Renee Russell
#79. BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE
Nikki Giovanni
#80. I'm a good collaborative writer. I can usually come in and add a couple lines to something, and add a riff or a B-section, or a bridge that will tie things together. I can do stuff like that. But to write a whole song, I don't have the patience for that, I guess.
James Young
#81. But right now, he couldn't help but wish the guy looked a little less like he belonged in underwear commercials and a little more like he belonged under a bridge.
Julie Ann Walker
#82. Though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
Amelia Barr
#83. They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
George C. Wallace
#84. I wanted to try to build a bridge of words between me and that world outside, that world which was so distant and elusive that it seemed unreal.
Richard Wright
#85. There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.
M T Anderson
#86. Your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
Charles Bukowski
#87. Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
Wes Nisker
#88. A bridge. A big bridge with lots of traffic. You can't be serious. I've almost killed us at least twice going up and down these crazy hilly roads!" I yelped with true fear in my quivering voice.
Elle Klass
#89. I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.
Safak Pavey
#90. Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.
Daniel Schacter
#91. nature is a bridge that will be linking with our mind.
Jan Jansen
#92. Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
Sarah Addison Allen
#93. I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
Claude Monet
#94. God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.
Billy Graham
#95. Small talk is incredibly important when building new relationships and is necessary to do when networking, provided it is not small minded...
Small talk helps to provide a bridge from saying "hello" to the substantive part of the conversation.
Timothy M. Houston
#96. Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#97. Maybe he was what Lucian would have turned out to be if the old sheriff hadn't have lived in such interesting times. A couple of years in a Japanese prison camp might be just what Turk needed. But I didn't have a bridge over the river Kwai for him to build so we had to settle for Powder Junction.
Craig Johnson
#98. TIP: Adding a splash of the wine you're drinking to the sauce can build a bridge between the food and the wine.
Andrew Dornenburg
#99. Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
Jane Lindskold
#100. Kyubey: ... Oh, geez. I never would have thought you capable of throwing your friend off a bridge. That wasn't a sane act, Madoka!
Magica Quartet
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