Bridges Quotes

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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Isaac Newton

Enough, Build, Walls

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama

Business, Successful, Help

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khrushchev

Same, Promise, Build

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
Billy Graham

Between, Build, Jews

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison

Education, Matter, Building

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

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

Nice, Fire, Makes

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.
Rush Limbaugh

Everything, Around, Far

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells

Nothing, Ugly, Measure

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
Fridtjof Nansen

Forward, Choice, Behind

I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.
Tom Hiddleston

Done, Why, Sure

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson

Between, Books, Ideas

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
Christopher Nolan

God, Human, Mean

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.
Elizabeth Warren

Education, Future, Science

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 Bloomberg

Money, Remember, Made

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.
Mike Davidson

Nice, End, Book

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.
Thomas Frank

Money, Done, Wrong

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes

Politics, Trying, Find

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.
Evan Davis

Power, Together, Rather

If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
Adam Carolla

Women, Done, Build

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Julie Burchill

Bitter, Seems, Nor

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

Love, Act, Brilliant

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
Joichi Ito

Peace, Long, Before

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.
Lucinda Williams

Change, Trust, Best

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.
Valerie Jarrett

Work, Government, Important

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Fred Thompson

Build, Draw, Hopefully

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Knowledge, Thinking, Used

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
Ben Barnes

History, Favorite, Jeff

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente Fox

Building, Walls, Instead

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