Quotes About Understanding

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife and my step-son, or my daughter and my ex, I'm that guy in the middle, and I try to make sure we all stay together.

I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'

We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

I want someone who can make me laugh and just be normal and understand my lifestyle and how I wanna live it.

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

I don't wanna say I'm anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I'm a unifying force. I'm there to show everybody that we're all the exact same.

If I'm writing a tune with someone I'm making sure it's what they wanna say and it's articulating what they have to share.

My mom and dad will look at me and my husband, and they're like 'I feel so sorry for this child! He's not eating fish sticks and pizza!' I'm like, 'We try to give it to him, but he doesn't wanna eat it!'

Even if you don't like what I do, and you don't like my band, you might have a fan that likes both of us, and why would you wanna alienate them?

The perfect date is real simple. I wanna just spend a nice casual day walking in the park, playing on the swings... throwing bread crumbs to the ducks, really just chilling and getting to know each other and connecting with the real woman.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

Once you know trans people, all you wanna do is protect them. They're not out to hurt anybody. They are trying to live.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

Sometimes as friends, you grow apart and you have different visions for what you wanna do and that's OK, there's no love lost.