Top 130 Bridges Quotes

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

I just had such a lucky experience working with incredible actors, getting to see their work ethics, their different techniques… Jeff Bridges is such a legend! Getting to watch him and see how he worked was a blessing.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I’m trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

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.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge – the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.

If wives or girlfriends are knowledgeable about sports, it only benefits their relationships. It’s all about give-and-take negotiations, like saying, ‘I’ll see ‘Unforgiven’ if you’ll see ‘The Bridges of Madison County.’

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.

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.

Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure – all those things flow from that economic base.

Bridges join places that were separated. They are built for the sake of progress and for the average citizen. They even have a religious dimension. Even the word ‘religious’ comes from the Latin, meaning ‘creating a link.’

My first book, ‘To Engineer Is Human,’ was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Throughout my work as a state legislator and member of Congress since 2002, I have worked as hard as I could to build bridges. I’ve worked to combat anti-Semitism and confront Holocaust denial. I’ve organized dozens of meetings to promote interfaith dialogue and joint projects.

China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city.

I’ve always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he’s doing.

It was voters in the Rust Belt that cared about their roads being rebuilt, their highways, their bridges. They felt like the world was crumbling. So I started making ads that would show the bridge crumbling.

When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

We believe more in bridges and making the border better.

We like to be the people who go – can go out into the world and say we’re the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.

When we invest in our roads and bridges, we are investing in our people and our future.

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.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

As chief scientist, it’s sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable… to looking back at the Earth – how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?

We thought we’d name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton’s city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn’t like the sound of that so much.

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

But professionally I’ve never felt as strongly about a project, with the exception of ‘The Bridges of Madison County’, as ‘The Light in the Piazza’.

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.

‘Bridges’ is definitely one of the heart-wrenching ones. It’s definitely a message that needs to be shared out there into the world. Something we wanted to share with everybody and let them know is that we know love can conquer hate.

Glute bridges make sure my hips are staying in line. Making sure that I’m not putting added stress on the hamstrings, hip flexors, or groin. Being able to stabilize the hips is pretty much the center of playing football, so you can stay healthy.

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 whenever I’m in the paper, it’s dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises – and saying we have to tackle these problems.

Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other’s hearts.

People have said, ‘Let’s build bridges,’ and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.

I thank God I’ve never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it’s time for me to call in my favors, they’re coming.

The Guardian’s ‘Word of Mouth’ blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

We have over 100,000 bridges in this country old enough to qualify for Medicare.

I’m not a wilting flower. I’m honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I’ve burned a lot of bridges.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

I don’t mind payin’ for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don’t wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure – places in their own right.

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.