Bridges Quotes - Page 32

• Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

  Mike Parry

  Would Be, Thousand, Cents

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• Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Want, Relation

  TIME Magazine, July 24, 2006.

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• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  Barry Manilow

  New York, Hips, Brooklyn

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So, Im thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of The Joker as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

  Jerry Robinson

  Brother, Player, Thinking

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• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  Bernard Werber

  Children, Israel, Egypt

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• Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

  Julia Glass

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

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• 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.

  Janine Benyus

  Stress, Tree, Algorithms

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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  School, Kids, Technology

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• We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.

  Al Gore

  Country, Technology, People

  Al Gor's Foreign Policy Speech to the International Press Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2000.

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• 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.

  Roger McNamee

  Thinking, Long, Growth

  "Obama Needs to Think Bigger About Infrastructure" by Roger McNamee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2009.

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• I don't always burn my bridges, but when I do, I like there to be no survivors.

  Ursula Vernon

  Survivor

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• I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Imagination, Phrases

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

  Al Lewis

  Sleep, Oscars, Rich

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• He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.

  William Watson

  Fall, Eye, Toil

  William Watson, “Thomas Hood”

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• We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Life

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• When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies. I'm a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer. We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We've been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It's really isolated.

  Alan Lightman

  Summer, Spiritual, Couple

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• 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

  Flower, Fighting, Honest

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• Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together. Love permits us to see who and what we are. The only thing that will truly inspire us to find the dharma is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Together Love

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• Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Disappointment, Women, Love Is

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• The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Technology, Green

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Men, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.

  Edward M Hays

  Thank You, Beautiful, Gratitude

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• I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

  Burton Silverman

  Hope, Art, World

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• The connection between health and productivity at work is intuitively obvious but has not been demonstrated to the satisfaction of either researchers or corporate financial officers. Ronald Kessler and Paul Stang help to bridge the usual gap between research and the marketplace with the help of a top-notch group of the best 'real-world' investigators obtainable-all in the cause of making the case that employee health should be treated as an investment in business performance-thus creating the new discipline of health and productivity management.

  Sean Sullivan

  Real, Creating, Discipline

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