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Quotes About Bridges

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
~ Adolf Hitler
The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round
~ Suzanne Vega
When love fills your heart, all bridges lead to something wonderful. (All roads and tunnels too!)
~ Scott Stabile
He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.
~ Neal Shusterman
He was bursting with enthusiasms. He probably loved many things: the hawk in flight, the god-damned ocean, full moon, Balzac, bridges, stage plays, the Pulitzer Prize, the piano, the god-damned Bible.
~ Charles Bukowski
under bridges is only air.
~ Charles C. Mann
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.
~ Santiago Calatrava
In the later era, people living in safety purchased with other people's lives could loftily dismiss bridges as "meaningless," when in warfare the control of bridges can be a matter of life and death for armies and for the fate of whole nations.
~ Thomas Sowell
Ferrys die, but there is always a Ferry to cross the mist. Bridges and ferryfolk, they are not so different, Kit.
~ Kij Johnson
Tako, svuda na svetu, gde god se moja misao krene ili stane, nailazi na verne i ?utljive mostove kao na ve?itu i ve?no nezasi?enu ljudsku želju da se poveže, izmiri i spoji sve što iskrsne pred našim o?ima i nogama, da ne bude deljenja, protivnosti ni rastanaka.
~ Ivo Andri?
In her time as a reporter, she'd found that murder was a community event in Caldwell. Well, certainly for everyone except the man or woman who'd actually done the dying. For the victim, she had to imagine death was an alone kind of thing, even if he or she were staring into the face of the killer. Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge. -Beth's thoughts
~ J.R. Ward
For the victim, she had to imagine death was an alone kind of thing, even if he or she were staring into the face of the killer. Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.
~ J.R. Ward
In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
~ Jack Zipes
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
~ H. G. Wells
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
~ Barack Obama
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.
~ Santiago Calatrava
The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
~ Valerie Jarrett
There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi.
~ Tate Reeves
Robbie Fowler contacted me and said there were some very good players in the A-League while Michael Bridges spoke in glowing terms of this growing League. After finally speaking to Dwight Yorke, I decided to accept Newcastle Jets' two year offer.
~ Emile Heskey
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man.
~ Pete Doherty
Morning SUN That awakens Paris The highest poplar on the bank On The Eiffel Tower A tricolored cock Sings to the flapping of his wings and several feathers fall As it resumes its course The Seine looks between the bridges For her old route And the Obelisk That has forgotten the Egyptian words Has not blossomed this year SUN
~ Vicente Huidobro
Tutta Parigi era ai suoi piedi, coi mille pennacoli dei suoi edifici e l'orizzonte circolare delle sue molli colline, col fiume serpeggiante sotto i suoi ponti e il popolo, formicolante per le sue strade, con la nube dei suoi vapori, la catdna montuosa dei suoi tetti che rinserra Notre Dame tra le sue gambe accavallate. Ma di tutta quella città l'arcidiacono non guardava chs un punto: la piazza del Sagrato; di tutta quella folla, una figura: la zingara.
~ Victor Hugo
They were the ships of Task Force 77 and they had been sent to destroy the communist-held bridges at Toko-ri.
~ James A. Michener