Bridges Quotes - page 2

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. (Robert Englund)
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. View quote
A. R. Rahman
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. View quote
Beau Bridges
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. View quote
Christopher Dodd
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. View quote
Fiorello H. La Guardia
One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply? View quote
Geraldo Rivera
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. View quote
Gladys Taber
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. View quote
Gavin Bryars
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. (Isambard Kingdom Brunel)
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently. View quote
James Wolfensohn
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight. View quote
Janine Benyus
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. View quote
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. View quote
Bruce Jackson
Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us. View quote
Bruce Jackson
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. View quote
Peter T. King
Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way. View quote
Peter York
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. View quote
Richard V. Allen
We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth. View quote
Roger McNamee
Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission. (Richard Attias)
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant. View quote
Richard Attias
When youre in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie! View quote
Salli Richardson
I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it. View quote
Stana Katic
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. View quote
Sebastian Coe