“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

“And every one of us has to face that day;
Do you cross the bridge or do you fade away?
And every one of us that ever came to play
Has to cross the bridge or fade away.”

Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

“Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?”

Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer

“A lot of bridges in the world are kinda similar to each other. You can go compare, you know, different suspension bridges around the world; the Golden Gate bridge and other bridges and there's a lot of similarities. That doesn't prove one is the father of the other!”

Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist

“You know it's not too late to leave tomorrow,
'cause I know where I'm going…
I am building a bridge to Paradise!”

Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist

“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
Into twenty villages,
Or one man
Crossing a single bridge into a village.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“I have examined myself carefully. I could never bid chaos welcome, blow up bridges, and do away with ideas. I am not an anarchist.”

Hugo Ball (1886–1927) German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists

“We are committed to bridge the gap between the city and the village.
We are committed to bridge the gap between capital and the labour.
We are committed to bridge the gap between the citizen and the administration.
We are committed to bridge the gap between the centre and the states.
We are committed to bridge the gap between Linguistic, religious and caste groups.”

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India