Bridges Quotes - Page 16

• great men burn bridges before they come to them

  e. e. cummings

  Men, Burning Bridges, Great Men

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• Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trying, Way, Emotion

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• No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Rivers, Venture

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Children, Responsibility

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hurt, Kids, Night

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• Men drive off bridges and drink too much because of women like you.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Too Much, Like You

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Four to Score”, p.209, Macmillan

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• She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

  Ian Mcewan

  Real, Waiting, Challenges

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• won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

  Lucille Clifton

  Hands, Everyday, Clay

  Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

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• Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Simple, Order

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.670, Bantam

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• A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

  Julian Barnes

  Dream, Disappointment, Long

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Mean, Acceptance

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

  James Agee

  Strong, Wall, Cutting

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• The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

  Shel Silverstein

  Running, Halfway There, Land

  Shel Silverstein, “The Bridge”

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• Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

  Mark Helprin

  Imperfect World, Cities, People

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.555, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician? That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection!

  Roger Ebert

  Powerful, Reality, Rivers

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• He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.

  Arthur Phillips

  Fall, Reflection, Night

  Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

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• The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition. (Written in 1949, 22 years before the World Trade Center was completed.)

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Years

  Here Is New York (1949)

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• Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Men, Overcoming

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, William Arrowsmith (1990). “Unmodern Observations”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!... Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it... and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

  Jack London

  Sports, Home, Thinking

  "The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916". Stanford University Press. Volume three, 1988.

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• But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

  Sue Miller

  Distance, Risk, Needs

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• It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Irritation, Brooklyn Bridge

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

  Utah Phillips

  Song, Struggle, Rivers

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• Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Fake, Bait

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Ocean, Thinking

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.18, Harper Collins

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