Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

One of the first things we will do is offer our downtown lights to be sponsored by people. Marilyn Mathews will be heading that up. We will get that information out later. Hopefully next spring Charlie Hartley will be successful with her bridge lighting grant.

One of the most important priorities for me is to make sure all rails, roadways and bridges are secure.

One of my goals was to bridge the gap between students and athletes. My dad has been really involved with the ACS; I have a couple cancer survivors in my family, and I lost my grandpa to leukemia. I thought starting the relays would be a really bring a cool thing to do and bring students together.

W. S. Gilbert

One of my fondest goals is to try to bridge the gap between urban and rural Oregon. Democrats identify with urban people, Republicans with rural people. We need to get rid of partisanship.

Of all the needs we face, none is greater than our bridges. You can have a road failure; that's not catastrophic. A bridge failure is.

We determined that the safest thing to do was to stop all freight and passenger train traffic over the bridge until it could be repaired.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

What we're going to have until mid-2008 is a six-lane bridge, just like we have a six-lane bridge now.

There is a sense of urgency because of the possibility of another similar (weather) system starting next Wednesday. They'll focus on getting culverts, bridges and so forth cleaned.

But even if we would execute perfectly on our corporate strategy, unless we have the right channels to the market to bridge the last few meters to the consumer, it's all in vain.

But by March we expect to have a system of boardwalks and bridges completed so most hikers can keep their feet dry.

Because we have so many bridges in this state, most times the need for repairs is greater than the means we have to do it. Every year, we update the condition of each bridge to make sure the money is there for repairs.

Kofi Annan

Now we turn to a new task: to implement what has been agreed, and keep working to bridge differences that remain,

Now these cities are getting into the game, because they want to bridge their digital divide.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me?

Four bridges might not seem like a lot, but two of them are complete replacements.

Four thousand deaths is too many. Building walls is not the solution, but building bridges of communication is.

Yitzhak Rabin

I don't think he would have been able to bridge the great differences between the Palestinians and Israel.

I have been in discussions with PennDOT and will do what we need to get the bridge replaced as quickly as possible,

I feel that people who would think it goes too far don't understand what the intent is. One has to build a bridge to the present.

I can't see us leaving Stamford Bridge in the near future.

I am excited to bring someone of Brian's personal and professional caliber to this new position. His commitment to this organization, to this sport, and to this community is special. As our Director of Soccer Development, Brian's responsibilities range from coaching and scouting, to competitive analysis, to serving as our bridge between the team and the front office.

Bryant H. McGill

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

Elif Safak

Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity.

Annie Lennox

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.

Czeslaw Milosz

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.

Dale Carnegie

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Cory Booker

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Dylan Moran

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

Anatole France

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

Amelia Warner

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

Amy Waldman

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.