bridges Quotes

“Ye are only bridges: may higher ones pass over upon you! Ye signify steps: so do not upbraid him who ascendeth beyond you into HIS height!”

“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.”

“You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”

“First you must have the images, then come the words.”

“As Peyton Fahrquhar fell straight downward through the bridge he lost consciousness and was as one already dead. From this state he was awakened - ages later, it seemed to him - by a sharp pressure upon his throat, followed by a sense of suffocation.”

“Under the bridge And over the dam Looking for berries Berries for jam”

“I would always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge. ”

The bridge was my most prized possession.

“Father Pig went out into the night and carried the blanket bundle to the middle of the bridge. There he leant over the parapet and shook Mrs Wolf into the swirling depths of the big river. And she was not heard of again for a very long time.”

“Ping was always careful, very very careful not to be late, because the last duck to cross over the bridge always got a spank on the back.”

“Each morning as the sun rose from the east, Ping and his mother and his father and sisters and brothers and aunts and uncles and his forty-two cousins all marched, one by one, down a little bridge to the shore of the Yangtze river.”

“Ping knew he would be the last, the very last if he crossed the bridge. Ping did not want to be spanked.”

“But up marched Ping, up over the little bridge and SPANK came the spank on Ping’s back!”

“A great gray bridge, spanning the Hudson River from shore to shore. It made the little red lighthouse feel very, very small.”