Bridges Quotes - Page 6

• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Aggravation, Safe, Administration

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• Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Law, Justice, Tolls

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• Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

  Antoinette Perry

  Suicide, Circles, Dining

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• Also, if I did join another show, I'd end up burning my bridges to the show I love most.

  Michael Storm

  Burning, Ends, Shows

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• Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  Betty Buckley

  Rallying Point, Giving, Feminist

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• I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Australia, Wealth, Port

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

  Thornton Wilder

  Memories, Land, Survival

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Rude, Flags

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Focus, Library, Add

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• Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

  Clayton Rawson

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• When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

  Dylan Thomas

  Nice, Fire, Lifeboats

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• I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it

  Arlen Specter

  Taken, Views, Nuclear

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• People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.

  David McCullough

  People, Towns, Helpful

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

  Gordon Strachan

  Home, Wrecks, Alcoholics

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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Engineering

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• I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

  Dinah Shore

  Fire, World, Wanted

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• Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

  Robert Englund

  Taught, Scene

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

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• The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

  Hart Crane

  Epic, Long, Needs

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• People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

  Sheryl Crow

  Funny, Player, People

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• I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bird, Environmental, Stuff

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• I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

  Sean Lennon

  Song, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.

  Ruby Bridges

  Children, Heart, Racism

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• Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

  Ernie Pyle

  Dark, Night, Curves

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

  Robert James Waller

  Acting, Gone, Moments

  "Fictional character: Francesca". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

  Joey Ramone

  Country, Ideas, Mtv

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