Top 100 Quotes About Bridges
#1. Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.
Jim Croce
#2. Helena Bonham Carter and Jeff Bridges waved at me. And, of course, it would be absurd if they were waving at me, so I just stared at them. I stared at both of them. And they were like, 'Alright, fine.'
Jennifer Lawrence
#3. Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.
Steve Lillywhite
#4. Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.
Nora Roberts
#5. Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.
Steve Keen
#7. I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.
Rick Nielsen
#8. Adapting our own perception, following rather than leading and building bridges are all keys to helping the child with autism learn.
Adele Devine
#9. I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.
Scott Thompson
#10. ...If we can achieve this, then one day whole rooms, buildings, perhaps even bridges may generate their own energy, funnel it to where it is needed, detect damage, and self-heal. If this seems like science fiction, bear in mind that it is only what living materials do already.
Mark Miodownik
#11. BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
Ueli Gegenschatz
#12. From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
Bev Perdue
#13. Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.
Carl Rogers
#15. Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.
Oscar Arias
#16. Leaders are builders. They build bridges to unite, not walls to divide.
Farshad Asl
#17. Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#18. I desire to live my life this way, ... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence.
Help me find the way.
Lisa Wingate
#19. You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.
Amanda Schull
#20. Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage
Robin Sharma
#21. I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
Richard M. Nixon
#22. With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. 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
#25. One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.
Richard Rohr
#26. We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.
Roger McNamee
#27. Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together...
Mykyta Isagulov
#28. I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense ... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us ... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.
Rick Pitino
#29. Ferrys die, but there is always a Ferry to cross the mist. Bridges and ferryfolk, they are not so different, Kit.
Kij Johnson
#30. I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.
Chris Matthews
#31. I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.
Wanda Koop
#32. People are good at building bridges and finding their way across rivers. So it is with life, you study your problem, then figure out a way around it.
Kim Hotzon
#33. For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
Joey Ramone
#35. They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.
Chris Rock
#36. They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say, spiderwebs. But they rush across chasms on spiderwebs, and sometimes they make it, and that, they think, settles that!
John Gardner
#38. The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.
Alphonse Mucha
#39. I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."
Brian Lindstrom
#40. Love is a powerful device that builds the broken bridges.
Euginia Herlihy
#41. He wanted to see the world through her eyes, where simple things like oak paneling and stone bridges were marvels.
Regina Scott
#42. One foot in front of the other - through leaves, over bridges, said Newt.
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.
Anatole France
#44. The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
#45. Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.
Mason Cooley
#46. We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.
Luis Gutierrez
#47. Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.
Drake
#48. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
Tom Clancy
#49. Bridges and roads take years to build, but too often, states and communities haven't known if funding will be there for them more than a few months at a time.
Anthony Foxx
#50. It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
Fiorello LaGuardia
#51. Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
William J. Clinton
#52. I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.
L.M. Browning
#53. At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls.
George Carey
#54. Iron bridges hum and lofty buildings of steel and glass glint in the sun's rays and lean over everything with stretched shadows.
Logan Ryan Smith
#55. The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.
Peter Hoeg
#57. We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.
Michael Bennett
#58. I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.
Richard Matheson
#59. I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy.
James Frain
#60. If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
James Wolfensohn
#62. Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
John Howe
#63. I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
Ralph Richardson
#64. I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but to move forward
Fridtjof Nansen
#65. I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.
Joanna Lumley
#66. America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Christopher Dodd
#67. It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.
Rick Steves
#68. Here is the holy message coming from the bridges: Help people in silence without asking anything in return!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.
Paulo Coelho
#70. Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
Ben Barnes
#71. I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.
Shakira
#72. Burning bridges is much easier than making them and bridges take you places!
Abhishek Ratna
#73. Patriotism is love of country. But you can't love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don't always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Cory Booker
#74. We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
Richard L. Evans
#75. Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.
Robert Kyncl
#76. There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
Jo Walton
#77. Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#78. Bridges symbolize peace and human contact.
Tessa De Loo
#79. The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
Stephen Rodrick
#80. The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned
Dean Cavanagh
#81. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
Christopher Nolan
#82. Love builds bridges between two hearts when lovers are thousands of miles apart.
Debasish Mridha
#83. 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
#84. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Beatrice Wood
#85. Did people come here to commit suicide? They were bound to. Cliffs, bridges, tall buildings, they were like an invitation. Just stand there, looking down, was to create an optical illusion of the ground rushing up to meet you.
Martyn Bedford
#86. Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.
Al Siebert
#87. You must think I don't know what's keeping you up at night. You must think we're so different. But I know. Everyone knows despair. Isn't that why people jump off bridges or drown themselves? Anything, really, to escape being human.
V.J. Campilan
#88. I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.
Bo Jackson
#89. Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life ... the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#90. A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.
Pope Francis
#91. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#92. I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.
Tom Hiddleston
#93. You can use your time to build bridges or walls. The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.
Rick Warren
#94. I had rather be a meteor, single, alone.'
Plus Paris itself was noisome. Even with its glittering bridges and orangeries, even if the birthplace of ballet.
'I had rather been a meteor, than a star in a crowd.
Danielle Dutton
#95. Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
#96. The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Anatole France
#97. Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Richard Attias
#98. Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Julie Burchill
#100. Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge
J.R. Ward
