Top 1200 Brooklyn Bridge Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back.

My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

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.

I'm a black kid from the ghetto of Coney Island, Brooklyn, who only ever dreamed of playing in the NBA. So to have that dream come true but then go on this second journey in China... it's so far beyond anything that kid could have imagined.

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

John Lewis did more in one day on The Edmund Pettus Bridge than Donald Trump ever will do to make America great again.

Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.

I have to spend my time worrying about poor families at the expense of helping businesses, or vice versa. To me, I really see that's the bridge I need to build.

Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.

The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

Denial is huge for any alcoholic, especially for a functioning alcoholic, because I - you know, I'm not living under a bridge. I haven't been arrested.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

When I saw 'Fleabag,' and when this script came to me, there is a uniqueness and a dark naughtiness to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sensibility that I did gravitate towards, very much.

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

I just have an open mind - that's the way I live my life, just crossing the bridge when I come to it.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.

We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge.

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

I now talk to different cultures, and I hope that I can bridge those gaps and differences between us. It's an adventure, a dream... I feel like I'm on an anthropological mission.

I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

I play duplicate bridge and I play golf and I go swimming once in a while.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

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.

Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

The launch of free Wi-Fi service is a step forward to smart cities to bring revolutionary change in the lives of the masses and to bridge the digital divide.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart.

I've played a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge over the years, and have had a lot of fond memories there.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.

It was two different worlds: my world - cricket, the dressing room and the lads. And then family. Even when they travelled with me, it wasn't always easy to bridge the gap.