Top 100 Quotes About Bridges
#1. Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.
Jeff Bridges
#2. I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
Jeff Bridges
#3. We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.
Jerry Bridges
#5. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#6. People have this perception of soul music of somebody shouting.
Leon Bridges
#7. A bridge has no allegiance to either side.
Les Coleman
#8. William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?
Johan Huizinga
#9. [T}he sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.
Erich Fromm
#10. Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.
Jerry Bridges
#11. The Oscar nomination is great. It's a great pat on the back. And I like that.
Jeff Bridges
#12. Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack Obama
#13. I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.
Michael Sheen
#14. Children need explanations and they deserve explanations.
Todd Bridges
#15. If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
Adam Carolla
#16. My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.
Sandra Cisneros
#17. I could not see my own cold light, but I imagined it to be shimmering brightly, with Death looming close by. After such a dream, how could it not?
Robin Bridges
#18. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#19. Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?
Robert Bridges
#20. My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
Beau Bridges
#21. The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.
Robert Bridges
#22. It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.
Henry Louis Gates
#23. If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.
Jerry Bridges
#25. We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.
Paul Goldberger
#26. There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges
#27. Was I going mad? I prayed for warmth and daylight. I prayed for my sanity.
Robin Bridges
#28. Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.
Sivananda
#29. When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
Paul Simon
#30. As you become famous you lose some of your anonymity, which is wonderful for an actor to have because you can observe people and also people don't have such a strong sense of who you are and that sort of thing.
Jeff Bridges
#31. What I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context
John Stott
#32. They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.
Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.
Nova Ren Suma
#33. You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.
D.D. Barant
#34. Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
Jeff Bridges
#35. His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.
Jerry Bridges
#36. Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write them down and figure out how to use that in a melody to write a song.
Leon Bridges
#37. What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.
Todd Bridges
#38. As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
Sonia Sotomayor
#39. Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
Jeff Bridges
#41. My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
Jeff Bridges
#42. Some say, don't burn your bridges.
I say, if necessary,
let the kerosene
kiss it on the lips,
and watch it
turn to ash.
There's always more than one way
to cross the water.
Rudy Francisco
#43. A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#44. I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges
#45. The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.
Isabella Bird
#46. Kids know nothing about racism. They're taught that by adults.
Ruby Bridges
#47. Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.
Peter Morville
#48. Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.
Bow Wow
#49. Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.
D. L. Hughley
#50. She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks.
Akshay Vasu
#51. I never read reviews of something I want to see.
Jeff Bridges
#52. Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle
#54. I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.
James Fenimore Cooper
#56. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges
#57. Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
Matsuo Basho
#58. If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
William Throsby Bridges
#59. The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#60. We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
Jerry Bridges
#61. God's love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.
Jerry Bridges
#62. The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
Jerry Bridges
#63. Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.
Robert Bridges
#64. I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
Jeff Bridges
#65. I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.
Steven Pinker
#66. No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.
Todd Bridges
#67. The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.
Anatole France
#68. The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
Bridges McCall
#69. Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.
Beau Bridges
#70. I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
Jeff Bridges
#71. Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy. Left unchecked, it can spread throughout our entire inner being and contaminate every area of our lives. Even worse, it often will "metastasize" from us into the lives of other believers around us.
Jerry Bridges
#72. Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?
Ann Coulter
#73. Famiglia isn't always blood, mio caro. Famiglia is built on bridges of love. Famiglia is there for you without condition. Famiglia supports you in your darkest moment of need.
Tillie Cole
#74. I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends;
Rand Paul
#75. Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
Warren Buffett
#76. Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Robert T. Bakker
#77. To remember no more is God's way of expressing absolute forgiveness.
Jerry Bridges
#78. You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
Jeff Bridges
#79. Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
Jeff Bridges
#80. We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
Jerry Bridges
#82. So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
Jeff Bridges
#83. We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.
Bernie Sanders
#84. My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai
Barack Obama
#85. One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.
Garth Brooks
#86. I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.
Oprah Winfrey
#87. In the distance, they could see the headlights from cars crossing the bridges like fireflies swarming the streets toward home.
Abby Slovin
#88. Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
Emily Dickinson
#90. If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
Warren Rudman
#91. The factory that my grandmother had put under the house to produce these green men to come get me.
Todd Bridges
#92. I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges
#93. Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
Jeff Bridges
#94. How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.
Dale Dauten
#97. I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.
Leon Bridges
#98. Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly.
Kristina Meister
#99. Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
Jeff Bridges
#100. We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.
Douglas Kennedy
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