Top 48 Quotes About Building Bridges
#2. 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
#4. In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
Ahmed Zewail
#6. Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.
Peter Seymour
#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. Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.
Oscar Arias
#10. I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.
Richard M. Nixon
#12. 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
#13. Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente Fox
#14. A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.
Pope Francis
#15. It's about building bridges with those who won't come to us on Sunday, not as a project but because Jesus loves them and told us to. It's a dangerous journey that requires honesty and vulnerability.
Jen Hatmaker
#16. When we shut people out, we wall ourselves in;When we stop building bridges, we start erecting fences.
William Arthur Ward
#17. We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
Joichi Ito
#18. When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.
Thomas Frank
#19. That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.
Karen Horney
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. 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
#25. Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.
Janine Benyus
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.
Robert Benchley
#29. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
David Walker
#30. 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
#31. Walls don't work ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.
James G. Stavridis
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. 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
#36. Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sebastian Coe
#37. The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects ... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.
Ronald Reagan
#38. We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.
Widad Akreyi
#39. 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
#40. They're pretty good at building stuff," her sister said. "Like bridges and roads. I mean, could you even build a hut? Your basic mud hut?" "I could build a hut," said Cecilia. "You probably could," groaned Bridget,
Liane Moriarty
#41. The bridges were quite popular as building sites,because they had a very convenient sewage system and, of course, a source of fresh water.
Terry Pratchett
#42. There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.
Eugene Chadbourne
#43. Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.
Jerry Bridges
#44. You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own
Kerry E. Wagner
#45. The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.
Paul Myers
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
