Quotes About Bridge Building

#1. if bridge building were like programming, halfway through we'd find out that the far bank was now 50 meters farther out, that it was actually mud rather than granite, and that rather than building a footbridge we were instead building a road bridge.

Sam Newman

#2. There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#3. 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

#4. When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

Richard Serra

#5. 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

#6. It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

Robert Benchley

#7. You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.

Dan Chaon

#8. I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

Richard M. Nixon

#9. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

David Walker

#10. They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

George C. Wallace

#11. 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

#12. It's a small town; everybody eats in the same cafe; everybody gets their hair cut in the same barber shop. That kind of community building, I think, begins to bridge those gaps.

Joe Thompson

#13. Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.

Bill Gates

#14. For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of.

Wallace Stegner

#15. I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building with people passing me on the way to classes, on the way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.

Alice Munro

#16. It has taken many years for the game of go to initiate me into the freedom of slipping between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. From one stone to the next, from black to white, the thousands of stones have ended up building a bridge far into the infinite expanse of China.

Shan Sa

#17. The best man day in the world would involve building a bridge and then blowing up that bridge. Which is why you can't make a better man movie than The Bridge on the River Kwai, unless you make Two Bridges on the River Kwai.

Joel Stein

#18. When building a friendship bridge don't forget to construct a distruative path.

Peter Adejimi

#19. Lives Matter" - Those that serve our country matter. Lets be part of the solution to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community. Change the Atmosphere, Change the Outcome!

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#20. The main focus of this group is to help bridge the gifts and abilities of the pastor (and other staff) and laity in the church. Building the bridges that will link the faithfulness of the past with the possibilities of the future is crucial.

General Board Of Discipleship

#21. I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived ... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

Stephen King

#22. If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

Kevin Cashman

#23. Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

Adam Davidson

#24. Discovering your calling is not an epiphany but a series of intentional decisions. It looks less like a giant leap and more like building a bridge.

Jeff Goins

#25. Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

Widad Akreyi

#27. For every bridge you burn
there is the burdensome task
of building another one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Choose to love. Every time you choose to love instead of withdrawing in hurt you build a bridge instead of building a wall.

Jessiqua Wittman

#29. Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.

E. M. Forster

#30. When you see an aging or a rusted bridge, you are seeing nature and man working together. If you paint over a building there is no more magic to that building. But if it is allowed to age, then man has built it and nature has added into it - it's so organic.

David Lynch

#31. There is a great distance between skepticism and confidence and an equally great distance between confidence and certainty. God helps us bridge the gap between skepticism and confidence, but he doesn't seem particularly concerned with building us a bridge from confidence to certainty. Due

Austin Fischer

#32. Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

Jay Carney

#33. The quickest road to trust comes by building a bridge of common experiences.

Rachel Hawthorne

#34. 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

#35. If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#36. 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

#37. 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