Bridges Quotes - Page 23

• Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Revenge, Heart

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• There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  James Henry Breasted

  Egypt, Land, Civilization

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• I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

  Renita J. Weems

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Renita J. Weems (1993). “I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings”, Innisfree Press

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• I cannot forget my mother, She is my bridge.

  Renita J. Weems

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know... The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.

  Tom Coburn

  Alaska, Islands, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

  Steve Kroft

  People, Needs, Pittsburgh

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Three hundred bridges become structurally deficient each year in the state of Pennsylvania. That's one percent added to the already 23 percent they already have. They just can't fix them fast enough.

  Steve Kroft

  Years, Pennsylvania, Three

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.

  Steve Kroft

  Country, Philadelphia, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

  Steve Kroft

  Eight, Two, Feet

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.

  Ed Rendell

  America, Years, Vintage

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

  Ray LaHood

  Swings, Rivers, Design

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Communication, Two, People

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 407-08, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Miscellanists, 1922.

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• I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge.

  Stephen King

  Long, Want, Next

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• In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Broken, Expectations, Criticism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2008). “The Narrative Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.136, Wildside Press LLC

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• This is New York, a combat zone, and everyone has to have an angle or they're not allowed over the bridges or through the tunnels. Let them have their angles, it's what they live for. You've got better things to worry about, like making sure the people that actually matter don't try any funny stuff.

  Cynthia Heimel

  New York, Tunnels, People

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• Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

  Warren Buffett

  Player, Investing, Tough

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• Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Sea, House

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Nov 26, 2016

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• That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Journey, Sight, Eternity

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  War, Fall, Voice

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Shirley Chew (2003). “Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems”, p.60, Psychology Press

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• 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.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Mind, Painting, Hundred

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• If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Different, Division, Might

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• Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.

  Hu Jintao

  Spiritual, People, Understanding

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• Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Giving, Feelings, Facts

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional and local authorities are still competing with each other, competing for power. Those who take advantage of disorder and arbitrary rule are watching their mutually destructive fight.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Islands, Arbitrary

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• When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

  Richard Serra

  Art, Way, Revolution

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