Roads Bridge Tunnel

Famous quotes containing the words roads, bridge and/or tunnel:

    “Lift your eyes
    Where the roads dip and where the roads rise
    Seek only there
    Where the grey light meets the green air
    The hermit’s chapel, the pilgrim’s prayer.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)