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Quotes About Bridge

In a striking metaphor, Michael Burleigh suggests that the Nazis sought to rebuild German society as engineers rebuild a bridge. They could not demolish it, since that would disrupt traffic, and therefore they replaced each individual part, so that passengers wouldn't notice.
~ Kevin Passmore
The bridge of stars?" Janeway asked. "Uh-huh," Glenn said, nodding. "I can't remember the whole story. Two galaxies were one but over time, the natural expansion of the universe separated them. Still, they couldn't bear to be torn apart, so each of them sacrificed a few of their stars to leave a bridge between them so that no matter how far apart they drifted, they could never truly be separated." "That's beautiful," Chakotay said, glancing toward Janeway with a gentle smile.
~ Kirsten Beyer
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
~ Kofi Anan
The author has greatly enjoyed being able to discuss this subject with a few mathematicians and physicists. The greatest handicap to cooperation is certainly the difference in terms between the individual, specialized fields of knowledge. We hope that this chasm will be bridged in time and that through cybernetics, a true bridge between physics and the automaton theory can be built.
~ Konrad Zuse
Between the 'death bridge' and our little chat with the Queen of the Damned, I've decided I should carry a gun at all times; whether it's to defend myself or to put myself out of my own misery," Carmen rambled on nervously. "It's a win-win situation, really.
~ Kristen Day
What we can do is to establish a bridge between the various levels in order to form a coherent picture; the whole of Boltzmann's work is a masterpiece of this procedure, i.e. how to construct, starting from atoms, a description that explains everyday life.
~ Carlo Cercignani
A full appreciation of this crucial position requires an examination of the Confederate defense on this side of Antietam Creek and a walk across the famous Burnside Bridge to explore the IX Corps' efforts to cross the span and push up to this high ground and beyond.
~ Carol Reardon
He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.
~ George Herbert
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
~ George Herbert
I dreamt I saw a shadow with a burning heart butchering a golden stag, aye. I dreamt of a man without a face, waiting on a bridge that swayed and swung. On his shoulder perched a drowned crow with seaweed hanging from his wings. I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks, but when her eyes did open, oh, I woke from terror. All this I dreamt, and more.
~ George R.R. Martin
As a boy, he used to run across this bridge, even in the black of night. Boys believe nothing can hurt them, his doubt whispered. Grown men know better.
~ George R.R. Martin
The water-bridge. A bridge made of water spans the gap between two water-filled beakers. What sustains the bridge?
~ Gerald H. Pollack
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.
~ Giovanni Ruffini
Život je neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrtso- kao na Drini ?uprija.
~ Ivo Andri?
Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March. Opposite him, a little to the side, stood the eternal bridge, everlastingly the same; through its white arches could be seen the green, sparkling, tumultuous waters of the Drina, so that they seemed like some strange diadem in two colours which sparkled in the sun.
~ Ivo Andri?
Alles im Leben ist eine Brücke – ein Wort, ein Lächeln, das wir dem anderen schenken.
~ Ivo Andri?
Tako su se obnavljali naraštaji pored mosta, a on je kao prašinu stresao sa sebe sve tragove koje su na njemu ostavljale prolazne ljudske ?udi ili potrebe, i ostajao je posle svega nepromenljiv.
~ Ivo Andri?
Njegova kapija je srce mosta koji je srce ove kasabe koja svakom mora da ostane u srcu.
~ Ivo Andri?
Život u kasabi pored mosta bivao je sve življi, izgledao sve sre?eniji i bogatiji, i hvatao ravnomeran korak i dotle nepoznatu ravnotežu, onu ravnotežu kojoj svaki život, svuda i oduvek teži, a koju postiže samo retko, delimi?no i prolazno.
~ Ivo Andri?
This generation was richer only in illusions; in every other way it was similar to any other. It had the feeling of both lighting the fires of a new civilization and extinguishing the last flickers of another. Everything appeared as an exciting new game on that ancient bridge, which shone in the moonlight of those July nights, clean, young and unalterable, strong and lovely in its perfection, stronger than all that time might bring and man imagine or do.
~ Ivo Andri?
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~ J.D. Robb
I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.
~ J.R. Ward
I had spent so many years on 'Law & Order: UK' being a downtrodden detective standing on Hammersmith Bridge at six o'clock in the morning, being rained and snowed on, and I thought, 'I'll have a bit of a change of direction in my career and go and do 'SunTrap' in Gran Canaria.'
~ Bradley Walsh