Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.

We've had aluminum railings from bridges and manhole covers taken for scrap, but we've never seen anything of this magnitude before.

Tony and I have made a lot of progress in getting to know each other and understanding each other's viewpoints. We're trying to build bridges for the future.

Amr Khaled

Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it must be two-way bridges.

Cornel West bridges another gap between the intellectual elite and the masses of people that are struggling every day to sometimes get a job or get the kind of education that he got. He comes from the grassroots and relates back to that.

Do we have other bridges like this in this area? Yes. We know this is a critical situation. This is a dramatic situation. We don't want this to happen again.

There's so much negative information in the media. If the building of bridges and roads and schools and power plants was portrayed in the media, it would make a huge difference. We need to stand by our men and women so they can keep their morale up.

Phil Garner

There's several great points from our standpoint in that game. It was Backe's first time back, and he kept us in the ballgame. And Wandy Rodriguez, who has been a starter, he goes out and gives us one inning and kind of bridges our bullpen.

Michael Sheen

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

Norah Jones

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

Mick Jagger

I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

Michael Jordan

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

Mehmet Oz

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

Michael Rady

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

Mark Twain

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

Mason Cooley

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

Neil Gaiman

I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.

Thelonious Monk

The inside of the tune [the bridge] is the part that makes the outside sound good.

Michael Bloomberg

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

Michael Storm

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

Tom Hiddleston

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

Rajneesh

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

If safety were a paramount concern those two other bridges would've been down by now. You can't build this bridge without doing something to everybody in this room.

If people were jumping off bridges we wouldn't give them a push, we'd try to stop them.

Jack Zipes

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

Joe Harris

It was a lot worse on the Dallas side than the Fort Worth side because temperatures were a little lower to the east. You had ice forming on bridges and overpasses, and it was probably a little slick on the curves. There also was some fog.

It's frustrating any time you lose, it doesn't matter how or where. It's extra frustrating when you get that many shots, but Bridges is a good goalie and he got the job done.

Kit Bond

Investing in our rural roadways and bridges is more than just investing in concrete and steel; it is also an investment in our future.

Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness.

J. Cole

Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

Freeman Dyson

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

Dennis Ross

I really feel there's a need much more for a third party to build bridges between the two sides before it's too late,

Italo Calvino

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.