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“I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.”

Firsts Looks Persons Home Sides Seeing Thousand Ocean First Time Rivers Crosses Distance Photograph Miles Bridges Towers Soar Miles Away Rooftops Eiffel Tower Eiffel

Book:The Sweetness of Forgetting

Source: The Sweetness of Forgetting

“Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one.”

Ifs Children Streets Mom Dad Please Dear Bridges Bags Mom And Dad

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.”

Ability Television Entertainment Dinner Bridges Charm Distraction Bedtime Chasms

Book:All Things Considered

Source: All Things Considered

“Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.”

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.”

Should Mind Heart Winning Building Population Locals Bridges Usa Heart And Mind Building Roads

Author:Paul Myers

“Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.”

Littles Whole Sides Towns Rose Saint Bridges Quarters Towers Both Sides Statues Gothic Medieval Icons Pedestrians Prague

Author:Laini Taylor

“The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.”

People Humans Heart Perfect Numbers Patient Saved Bridges Artificial Human Heart Transplants Heart Transplant

Author:Robert Jarvik

“The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.”

Ifs Made Moving Mother Water Journey Brother Drink Rivers Suicide Bridges

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.”

Said Romance Games Cards Bridges Stakes Playing Cards

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.”

Chance Five Broke Bridges Finest Traveler Friday July Noon Peru

Book:A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros

Source: A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros

“I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.”

Mind War Night Fighting Pay Enemy Streets Middle Police Train Bridges Welfare Bombs Subsidies Fiasco Proxy Sanitation Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race. To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.”

Ifs Men Humans Wells Long Shows Care Causes Growth Race Path Evolution Truth Is Essentials Bridges Human Race Poison Contempt Heartfelt Misuse

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.”

Firsts Children Made Film Born Daughter Bridges My Children Exception Brooklyn Brooklyn Bridge

Author:Ken Burns

“I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.”

Bridges Combat Engineers Infantry

Author:Mel Brooks

“That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.”

Love Loneliness Building Succeed Built Eternity Burden Heavy Bridges Shore Tolerate Building Bridges

Book:Feminine Psychology

Source: Feminine Psychology

“Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.”

Ends Shows Painting Finished Bridges

Author:Jack Paar

“I initially wanted to be a teacher and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.”

World Way Different Wanted Teacher Bridges Different Ways Engineers Highways Business World

Author:Lou Gerstner

“I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.”

Three Cities Watches Train Ancient Bridges Tall Legends Hung Spires Coventry

Book:The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Source: The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.”

Way Soul Language Realizing Common Bridges Islands Continents Refined Common Life

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.”

Ifs Thinking Play Humor Funny Three Cold Humorous Doctors Medicine Caught Bridges Good Doctors

Author:Robert Benchley

“Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.”

Knows Needs States Moving Groups Crosses Protection Bridges Guidance Patronage

Author:Richard Rohr

“Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.”

Ifs Real Culture Streets Fronts Building Products Holy Bridges Iron Sugar Towers Steel Pills Gothic Real Things Telegraph Fleet Street

Book:Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity

Source: Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity

“One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.”

Knows Seems Spirit Common Study Doors Angel Saint Patterns Deeper Bridges Guardian Exit Quaint Deeper Meaning

Author:Richard Rohr

“There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.”

Years Has Beens Done Home Kids Courses Process Parent Study Changed Educational Bridges California Hispanic

Author:C. Everett Koop

“When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.”

May Has Beens Use Knowing Program Weight Safety Bridges Dependent Software Engineers

Author:David Parnas

“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 after that, and the kid after that. That's what president Obama believes.”

Believe Country Bigs Kids Next Opportunity President Bridges President Obama New Opportunity

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.”

Years House Years Ago Bridges Ponds Victorian Arcadia

Author:Nicolas Roeg

“My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.”

World Ideas Together West Starting Bridges Asia

Author:Swizz Beatz

“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.”

Song Building Died Folks Bridges Peasants Folk Songs

Author:Eugene Chadbourne

“Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.”

Should Building Wall Bridges Building Bridges Building Walls

Author:Vicente Fox

“I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.”

Culture Brands Bridges Urban American Culture

Author:David Guetta

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

Taught Scene Bridges

Author:Robert Englund

“It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.”

Would Be Difficult Building Difficulty Bridges

Book:One Minute, Please

Source: One Minute, Please

“Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.”

Firsts Certain Causes First Time Suicide Bridges Chumps

Author:Frank Zappa

“How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.”

“Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.”

People Memories Burning Bridges Adages

Author:Jim Croce

“At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.”

Two Book Form Certain Liberty Creative Media Bridges Gaps Adapting

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.”

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

Planning Bridges Bungee

Author:Norah Jones

“One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.”

Needs Tomorrow One Day Standing Rivers Revenge Bridges Burned Retribution

Author:Garth Brooks

“I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.”

Want Action Film Easy Stuff Brother Bridges Wire Cords Action Films Bungee

Author:Stana Katic

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