Bridges Quotes

“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
― Joseph Fort Newton

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare
to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“In all my close friendships, words are the bricks I use to build bridges. To know someone I need to hear her, and to feel known, I need to be heard by her. The process of knowing and loving another person happens for me through conversation. I reveal something to help my friend understand me, she responds in a way that assures me she values my revelation, and then she adds something to help me understand her. This back-and-forth is repeated again and again as we go deeper into each other's hearts, minds, pasts, and dreams. Eventually, a friendship is built - a solid, sheltering structure that exists in the space between us - a space outside of ourselves that we can climb deep into. There is her, there is me, and then there is our friendship - this bridge we've built together.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

“Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.”
― Ivo Andrić, The Bridge on the Drina

“Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Build bridges, not walls.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Bridges symbolize change and flexibility! They show us this simple philosophy: When you are on one side, you can easily move to the other side!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“(2002) In Rome, month upon month, I struggled with how to structure the book about my father (He already had the water, he just had to discover jars). At one point I laid each chapter out on the terrazzo floor, eighty-three in all, arranged them like the map of an imaginary city. Some of the piles of paper, I imagined, were freestanding buildings, some were clustered into neighborhoods, and some were open space. On the outskirts, of course, were the tenements--abandoned, ramshackled. The spaces between the piles were the roads, the alleyways, the footpaths, the rivers. The bridges to other neighborhoods, the bridges out...In this way I could get a sense if one could find their way through the book, if the map I was creating made sense, if it was a place one would want to spend some time in. If one could wander there, if one could get lost.”
― Nick Flynn, The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir

“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached the top, there would be one breath-taking moment when the car would tip precariously into space, over an incline six stories steep and then plunge, like a plunging plane. She buried her head against him, fearing to look at the park spread below. He forced himself to look: thousands of little people and hundreds of bright little stands, and over it all the coal-smoke pall of the river factories and railroad yards. He saw in that moment the whole dim-lit city on the last night of summer; the troubled streets that led to the abandoned beaches, the for-rent signs above overnight hotels and furnished basement rooms, moving trolleys and rising bridges: the cagework city, beneath a coalsmoke sky.”
― Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning

“I told her I loved the howling sound of her harmonica. That seemed to be the limit of my courage that night, and even those spoken words had to struggle their way out of my mouth. It's all very well for words to build bridges, but sometimes I think it's a matter of knowing when to do it. Knowing when the time's right.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“Don’t burn bridges, you never know when you might need them.”
― Omar Al Busaidy, Just Read It

“You cannot have the right to cross a bridge without respecting it! You cannot have the right to use the things without respecting them!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you love a bridge, you must also love the abyss beneath it, because if it wasn't for the abyss, that bridge wouldn't be there either!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If both sides of a bridge are very bad then the bridge becomes meaningless because for something to be meaningful it must contribute to a positive change in your life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hearts in distress often seek harmony from warm hearts. If we feel the need to send a response, there can be oppurtunity in punishing ourselves over those who disturbed our hearts [or those who disturbed the hearts of those who disturbed our hearts] - through X.

For ripples go in every direction.”
― Monaristw

“The gap between what’s right and what’s convenient only gets wider the more that we attempt to cross it. And that’s why the only bridges are the ones at the bottom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A bridge can only learn what it feels like to cross a bridge by trying to understand the emotion of someone crossing the bridge!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Challenges are like bridges; you must walk, ride or drive over them to get to the other side. So don’t ever hope to pray to avoid going over them. Just like money which does not solve many problems, prayers do not stop challenges.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“When you are too afraid to cross and you never want to cross, bridges begin to appear constantly in front of you; it's as if the universe is encouraging you not to limit your life because of your fears and asking you to free yourself by crossing the boundaries you have drawn by yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Not all bridges are man-made.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The hundreds of bridges in Venice, they are not the only bridges here. … The artisans are living bridges.”
― Amanda Dykes, All the Lost Places

“Unfortunately, people are erecting massive barriers around themselves rather than erecting beautiful bridges to connect.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II

“Bridges, like the internet, have always stood for a closeness. For a connection between two end points. Now that they are gone we are more isolated, lonelier. Less likely to form a connection with other humans.”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“If you are in any way part of Build, Build, Build, be strong and steadfast. The truth will not change only because alternate realities are repeated, or that facts are often ignored. The attacks will be more vicious and it will be at a rate that we have never seen before. Do not be disheartened. There is work to be done still. While we are already able to complete 29,264 kilometers of roads, 15,134 kilometers are still ongoing. While we have already built 5,950 bridges, we still have 1,859 bridges to build.”
― Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo , Night Owl: A Nationbuilder’s Manual

“They're going to keep focusing on which books to ban, and I'm focused on which bridges to build.”
― Pete Buttigieg

“We were building bridges on a foundation made of jelly!”
― DiptiDhakul

“At times we may have to burn the bridges behind us so that they do not become the obstacles in front of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there are three or five stones in a river that you can step on and cross, you should call them bridges, not stones! Peeled an apple with a sharp stone? Its name is no longer a sharp stone but a knife! As long as something works for you and solves your problem, you should give it the highest honour!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan