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)

    “Oh, who will now be able to relate how Pantagruel behaved in face of these three hundred giants! Oh my muse, my Calliope, my Thalie, inspire me now, restore my spirits, because here is the ass’s bridge of logic, here is the pitfall, here is the difficulty of being able to describe the horrible battle undertaken.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “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)