Bridges Quotes · Page 9

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

— Etheridge Knight

“Don't build bridges you don't intend to cross.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter where I go, I always make friends at the bridge table

— Martina Navratilova

I'm never going to be on ESPN, probably. I've burned too many bridges. That's fine.

— Dave Portnoy

Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

— Rick Pitino

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

— Beatrice Wood

“If you do not build bridges, precipices become your fate!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

— Marshall McLuhan

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

— David Walker

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

— Mehmet Oz

I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea whats going to happen.

— Lionel Barber

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never…

— Arthur Hugh Clough

Nina Turner had burned a lot of bridges in local Cleveland politics years ago, and voters have long memories.

— Jason Johnson

We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down

— Ron Paul

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump…

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Scott Thompson

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that…

— Mark Helprin

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had…

— Charles Bukowski

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge…

— Warren Rudman

Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting…

— Cassandra Clare

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For…

— Johan Huizinga

The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to…

— Richard V. Allen

Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a…

— Ben Rattray

Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a…

— Maryrose Wood

I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had…

— Daniel Handler

Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life…

— Martha Stout

I want to say to all you Scribes, Pharisees, heresy hunters, all of you that are going around pickin' little bits of…

— Paul Crouch

“Most dramatically, the Bridge served as an agonizing or exhilarating psychological symbol for the more than 1.2 million servicemen and women who…

— Kevin Starr

Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,…

— Utah Phillips

FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor…

— Christopher Marlowe

The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.…

— Anais Nin

People build so many walls and not enough bridges.

— Anonymous

Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Do not burn bridges, put a toll on either end.”

— Michael Fitzgerald

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

— Margaret Atwood

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

— Elliott Smith

Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world.

— Ram Nath Kovind

We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

— Bernie Sanders

“No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.”

— Suzy Duffy