Building Bridges Quotes:

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

- Ralph Ellison

source: Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.66, Vintage

topic: Education, High School Graduation, Bridges, Building Bridges

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Race, Bridges, People, Building Bridges, Common Ground

Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

- Peter Seymour

topic: Love, Heart, Hands, Building Bridges, Heart And Soul

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

- Pope Francis

source: In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

topic: Christian, Wall, Thinking, Building Bridges, Building Walls

The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

- Alphonse Mucha

topic: Bridges, Together, Purpose, Mutual Understanding, Building Bridges

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

- Joseph Fort Newton

topic: Life, Wall, Inspiration, Bodies In Motion, Friendliness

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

- Vicente Fox

source: Interview with Mark C. Anderson, www.montereycountyweekly.com. Nov 21, 2007.

topic: Wall, Bridges, Building, Building Bridges, Building Walls

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Believe, Bridges, Building, Building Bridges

Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly.

- A. G. Gaston

topic: Men, Bridges, Community, Contribution To Society, Contributing

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

- Joichi Ito

topic: Believe, Bridges, Voice, Long Way To Go, Building Bridges

After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.

- Keith Ellison

source: "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Winning, Bridges, Building Bridges

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

- Thomas Frank

source: "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

topic: Running, Bridges, Looks, Building Bridges

Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

topic: Bridges, People, Special, Tax Breaks, Building Bridges

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

- Ismail Kadaré

topic: Animal, Bridges, World, Building Bridges

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.

- Karen Horney

source: Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

topic: Love, Loneliness, Bridges, Building Bridges

I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.

- Stan Lee

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Book, Bridges, Careers, Building Bridges

My hope is Donald Trump will focus on building bridges instead of walls.

- Julian Castro

topic: Wall, Bridges, Focus, Building Bridges

... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

- John Stott

topic: Believe, Biblical, Bridges, Church Today, Building Bridges

Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.

- Sylvia Poggioli

topic: Christian, Wall, Thinking, Disgraceful, Building Bridges

The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.

- Jason Chaffetz

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Team, College, Winning, Electoral College, Building Bridges

We think that`s necessary just as a foundation for economic growth. It`s not the jobs in and of themselves, which you do make by building bridges and things like this, but it`s the economic growth that comes from having a modern infrastructure that is in dire need of repair.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Bridges, Building Bridges

If someone like myself, who is married to a white woman, who has spent my entire life building bridges, can't point out the alt-right whitelash reaction without being accused of being a racial polemecist, we're going to have a big problem.

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Bridges, White, Married, Being Accused, Building Bridges

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

- Peter King

topic: Leadership, Zero, Moving, Uptown, Muslim Community

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures. When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Book, Years, Bridges, Building Bridges