Bridges Quotations | Page 4

Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

A pier is a disappointed bridge.

We think that it's entirely appropriate that this rally and march will be across a bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, because it's across such bridges that guns come into our state that devastate our communities.

There are heavy concentrations of artillery along the border between Kosovo and Macedonia. There are only 14 roads into Kosovo -- two from Macedonia. These roads are mined. The bridges are mined. There are built in ... tank and artillery positions along lines of communication.

We will be working with Metra on getting those bridges replaced, too, ... But the bridges in the worst shape are on the southern end, which we own.

The reason they'd be moving is ownership has burned its bridges in Charlotte. Wherever they go will not be as good as staying in Charlotte.

but Seattle is growing fast and we're going to need a lot more than roads and bridges to handle the population that's already there.

We've had aluminum railings from bridges and manhole covers taken for scrap, but we've never seen anything of this magnitude before.

Tony and I have made a lot of progress in getting to know each other and understanding each other's viewpoints. We're trying to build bridges for the future.

There is some risk in focusing too intently on the characteristics of individual bridges and in doing so overlooking the larger context. Vermont's extraordinary villages and countryside create that context, a colorful blending of natural and cultural resources. A great many of Vermont's bridges, even those that can be called ordinary by engineering standards, are distinctive pieces of this varied but fragile landscape. Many contribute to vistas along important river corridors; others frame entrances to village centers or physically and visually join urban neighborhoods; still others define form and space in unusual ways; some simply mark places for travelers to pause on winding roads that disappear among the hills." ()

We simply must start making our roads safer for Oklahomans to travel. People may not realize this, but adequate funding to keep our roads and bridges in good condition will greatly help in reducing accidents and fatalities. Things such as paved shoulders and median barriers are the types of road-design elements we need to implement more of across our state.

We just had a lot more athletes than they did. We had to watch A.J. Bridges because he's a great player, but we pretty much controlled the game. We worked the ball real well.

We literally have homeless people dying under bridges and in wooded areas.

Bridges TV isn't being a shill for the FBI, and the FBI isn't being a shill of Bridges TV.

Bridges over Banana Creek and we're going to design those to look like covered bridge.

Bridges made some great saves. He's a great goalie, everyone knows that. He just came out and had another great performance tonight. We had lots of chances.

Bridges kept us in it. He gave us a chance by being strong early.

Boulder has a lot wider and smoother bike paths, and there are less bridges on the bike paths.

Believe it or not, windy weather can improve fresh water fishing. Fish can't see anglers as well when surface waters are chopped up by the wind. The big fish are going to hang around bridges and docks and places where they can ambush baitfish.

Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it must be two-way bridges.

Cornel West bridges another gap between the intellectual elite and the masses of people that are struggling every day to sometimes get a job or get the kind of education that he got. He comes from the grassroots and relates back to that.

Do we have other bridges like this in this area? Yes. We know this is a critical situation. This is a dramatic situation. We don't want this to happen again.

There's so much negative information in the media. If the building of bridges and roads and schools and power plants was portrayed in the media, it would make a huge difference. We need to stand by our men and women so they can keep their morale up.

There's several great points from our standpoint in that game. It was Backe's first time back, and he kept us in the ballgame. And Wandy Rodriguez, who has been a starter, he goes out and gives us one inning and kind of bridges our bullpen.

I started Bridges High School 10 years ago, and Judy, if she wasn't working hard, it never would have happened. This is pretty difficult for me. I had utmost respect for Judy over the years.

is like that middle, neutral ground, between the East Coast and the West Coast, not the States, but close, not all indie movies, some Hollywood stuff, not just fall movies, but some holiday things. It bridges a lot of gaps for movie people.

It was an unfortunate situation. And after the dust settled, she did a very good job of building bridges back to the clients.

These bridges are safe to use. The issue becomes, you have so much traffic using them, they may suffer from a safety standpoint of having so many vehicles, and more accidents because you're cramming so many people through a bottleneck. We would never let a bridge that gets into a condition of having failure remain open.

These bridges are all going so fast and I missed them. They are soon going to be gone and they are a part of our history.

These scientists are the bridges between research institutes and local governments, and their work helps millions of people shake off poverty.

The (state) highway department, county and city (of Arkadelphia) did a great job getting sand and salt out on our bridges and roadways.

The show that made the biggest impression on me was Sea Hunt.' I watched Lloyd Bridges in it, and that's how I decided to be an actor. I'd act out the whole show in the bathtub. I was 3 or 4 at the time. When Lloyd guest starred on Seinfeld,' I told him the story and he got such a kick out of it.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems beforethey arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must bewilling to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait foreverbefore taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

So six guys got letters, two have been renewed. They stayed here, remained quiet, didn't burn any bridges and did what they were supposed to do. As it turned out, we ended up not renewing four.

Successful Bridges is based on supporting families to move through the key transition times that all children have and to help them build developmental milestones as children similar ages as their own.

Sovereign has a lot of bridges to build with institutional investors. It's going to take time to repair their image.

So, we're hoping that the reward will actually build bridges between us and them,

Now more than ever you're going to need ... that infrastructure, those highway trust funds, to rebuild the bridges that were destroyed, rebuild the railroads that were destroyed. You have to have the infrastructure or you can't have a recovery,

During the first two weekends of October each year, Fulton County, Illinois, welcomes the world to the villages, parks, and bridges of Spoon River Valley Scenic Drive.

Any idiot who looks at a map knows you can't build bridges to every single island in Southeast. These are huge distances ... so we need roads and ferries both.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

The bridges did not pass our test of priorities, ... We felt we could not in good faith approve this project.

This durable, patented low-cost filter design bridges the gap between low-efficiency diesel-oxidation catalysts and expensive, heavily catalyzed particulate filters. The wire-mesh filter system is designed to work synergistically with a fuel-borne catalyst (FBC) for reliable performance. This combined FBC/CWMF technology is especially suited to solving the challenging problem of delivering a reliable pollution control solution which can be easily retrofitted for the older, higher-emission diesel engines expected to be in service for years to come. CDT will be offering licensing opportunities and technology transfer programs for the CWMF technology to establish manufacturing and distribution partnerships that meet worldwide retrofit and original equipment manufacturer needs.

They're pretty extensive repairs. I fully anticipate we should have those bridges reopened to traffic some time in October.

They're all part of the same tribe, the guys who build bridges and the guys who take them apart. It's a calling, a lifestyle they've signed onto. At the end of the day, they know they've done a good day's work.

It's kind of cruel for us to go out there and search these sites under bridges because if we find somebody we can't serve them.

It was a lot worse on the Dallas side than the Fort Worth side because temperatures were a little lower to the east. You had ice forming on bridges and overpasses, and it was probably a little slick on the curves. There also was some fog.

It's a very simple reason. It's the Bay Area where the toll bridges are located.

It's a funny feeling right now. Looking back on everything I've been through, being in an alcohol treatment facility, I thought I burned all my bridges as far as all the organizations in the NFL were concerned.

It's frustrating anytime you lose, no matter how you lose. I guess it makes it extra frustrating when you get that many shots. Bridges is a good goalie and we just couldn't get it done.

It's frustrating any time you lose, it doesn't matter how or where. It's extra frustrating when you get that many shots, but Bridges is a good goalie and he got the job done.

The beauty, amenities and services at The Bridges of Saint Paul will be an ideal environment for Westin. This partnership will enable Westin to offer guests staying with us in St. Paul the services, products and amenities that provides them a sense of rejuvenation, so that they may feel better when they leave than when they arrived.

Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

It will be one of the largest bascule lift bridges in the country.

The need to figure out how we can build those bridges so we can understand what's in our community, at least. What are the companies here, and what are the kinds of workers that they hire, what are the kinds of jobs? These are living-wage jobs, not just service-oriented jobs.

The Israelis should be building bridges for the Palestinians for the future of both peoples, for the generations to come, and not to heighten the hate, the fear and the desperation.

The feel is completely different because this year is about trying to build bridges and heal the community.

In fact, ... You will only attack bridges between ten o'clock at night and four o'clock in the morning. That creates a sanctuary and makes the kids (allied pilots) very, very predictable as to how we're going to do our business.

In my conversations with DNR personnel, bridges that are in now are fine, but if they have to be replaced, you can't do that. I asked about replacing a rotting bridge deck and I was told that even that is a gray area. That's when we thought we better get some wording change in the law.

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

In a sense, this book tells two stories. One is the history of bridge engineering that explains, in sometimes technical terms, how bridges are designed and built. The other is the story told by the images, far more revealing than any body of writing. Both stories are intertwined in the theme that bridges are very distinctive features on Vermont's landscape." ()

If safety were a paramount concern those two other bridges would've been down by now. You can't build this bridge without doing something to everybody in this room.

If people were jumping off bridges we wouldn't give them a push, we'd try to stop them.

I really feel there's a need much more for a third party to build bridges between the two sides before it's too late,

Investing in our rural roadways and bridges is more than just investing in concrete and steel; it is also an investment in our future.

In 1954, cars were bigger and repairing these little bridges was a nuisance. The big bridge came down in 1954. That would have been the seventh bridge,

Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness.

They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'.

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.

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

I have put together resources from the private and philanthropic communities to help provide a bridge because you've got to get the federal money. You've got to get the state money, but I'm going to do everything I can. And I will be with Flint all the way through this crisis in whatever capacity I am.

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

I shall see you on Blackfriars Bridge, Tessa.

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks of light that were Manhattan and Brooklyn on either side.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.

February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]

Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history... Immigration is not just a link to America's past; it's also a bridge to America's future.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!