494 Quotes About Bridges


  • Author Humphrey Bogart
  • Quote

    I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Isambard K. Brunel
  • Quote

    I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author James A. Baldwin
  • Quote

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

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author James Henry Breasted
  • Quote

    There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author Jim Burns
  • Quote

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

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Jo Brand
  • Quote

    In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ken Burns
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share