Bridges Quotes

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. (Nikita Khrushchev)
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. View quote
Anatole France
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. View quote
Dylan Thomas
The new media are not bridges between man and nature: they are nature. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
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. View quote
H. G. Wells
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smellof smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. View quote
Tom Stoppard
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. View quote
Eugene Chadbourne
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. View quote
Warren Rudman
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects. (Theo van Doesburg)
Should and would build no bridges. View quote
Robert Jordan
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must. View quote
Fred Thompson
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man. View quote
Pete Doherty
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. View quote
Ernie Pyle
When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you. View quote
Steven Erikson
Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad. View quote
Ivo Andrić
I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
We build too many walls and not enough bridges. View quote
Isaac Newton
I like to build bridges... not walls. (Oscar Arias Sanchez)
Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls. View quote
Burhan Sonmez
Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. View quote
Guy Gavriel Kay
Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge. View quote
J.R. Ward
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become. View quote
Alphonse Mucha