Famous Quotes & Sayings

These bridges are all going so fast and I missed them. They are soon going to be gone and they are a part of our history.

These scientists are the bridges between research institutes and local governments, and their work helps millions of people shake off poverty.

Jim Burns

The (state) highway department, county and city (of Arkadelphia) did a great job getting sand and salt out on our bridges and roadways.

The staff from DOT met with the governor today to lay out some details on the decision of an operating bridge as opposed to a fixed span.

The significance of that is that it allows us to bridge the gap between the rainy seasons. It gives us six months' worth of supply, meeting at least up to 25 percent of the region's water demands.

I've always viewed her as a good bridge builder.

I used to drive the Twin Span Bridge three or four times a day, ... Now its destroyed.

Steve Spurrier

So six guys got letters, two have been renewed. They stayed here, remained quiet, didn't burn any bridges and did what they were supposed to do. As it turned out, we ended up not renewing four.

Ross managed to bridge the gaps on some issues.

Gray Davis

The whole purpose of this is a bridge to a long-term solution,

The widespread use of the Internet as a global shopping cart has elevated the importance of product-comparison Web sites, as they have become a bridge between the in-store and virtual-shopping experience.

Charles Bishop

The waves were so big. I told him I was going to head for the bridge and go in between the bridge so it wouldn't be quite as choppy. But the next thing I know, here comes this big 'ole wave. It just rolled us right on over.

Barry Bonds

I've played a long time. I've had a lot of fun doing it. We'll tackle that bridge when it happens. I'll sit back and talk with my family and take a long, long vacation and see how I feel. I could do that and get in the wintertime and say, ?That's enough,' and somewhere in January wake up and say, ?That's not enough.

Frank Robinson

It would be water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.

I started Bridges High School 10 years ago, and Judy, if she wasn't working hard, it never would have happened. This is pretty difficult for me. I had utmost respect for Judy over the years.

Paula Wagner

is like that middle, neutral ground, between the East Coast and the West Coast, not the States, but close, not all indie movies, some Hollywood stuff, not just fall movies, but some holiday things. It bridges a lot of gaps for movie people.

We're trying to be as accommodating as we can and minimize the pain everyone's going to feel when the bridge is closed.

We've decided to close the bridge as a safety precaution.

Billy Graham

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

We had the opportunity to buy some used beams last fall, right around the time that we took the bridge out. They didn't cost us very much at all, maybe a couple of hundred dollars each.

Brendan Gill

We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.

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.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Gregory David Roberts

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Holly Near

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

We don't want to waste a lot of money if removing the bridge is the ultimate plan.

Colin Jones

It's a very narrow, tall bridge and it wouldn't be safe to place those banners. And if the banners aren't secured, well, they could drift into traffic and cause an accident.

The neighbors would rather that the concrete bridge not be built,

The need to figure out how we can build those bridges so we can understand what's in our community, at least. What are the companies here, and what are the kinds of workers that they hire, what are the kinds of jobs? These are living-wage jobs, not just service-oriented jobs.

After the new bridge opened up...there wasn't any reason to hang on to (the 1927 bridge).

James A. Baldwin

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

Christopher Isherwood

Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.