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en Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

en [On April 12, 1999, missiles blasted apart a passenger train in southern Serbia, killing at least 10 people and wounding sixteen. NATO acknowledged it had targeted a rail bridge considered an important military supply line. But there was a train on the bridge at the time of the attack.] We certainly don't want to do collateral damage, ... The mission was to take out the bridge. He realized when it had happened that he had not hit the bridge, that what he hit was the train.

en People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can't just let it be "water under the bridge." It is water under the bridge - the trouble is we do not live on the bridge but in the river of life with its many twists and turns.

en These cows attempted to cross the frozen edge of the river to drink at a still open stretch. The herd broke through the ice, drowned and became entrapped beneath the ice. Here they remained for over a month until the spring melt, when the river, freed of its ice jam, distributed the carcasses downstream.

en The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway, ... ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.
  John McPhee

en The river goes through New Orleans like an elevated highway. ...Among the five hundred miles of levee deficiencies now calling for attention along the Mississippi River, the most serious happen to be in New Orleans...the levees tend to sink as well. They press down on the muck beneath them and squirt materials out to the sides...The guide levees, ring levees, spillways and floodways that dangle and swing from Old River are here because people, against odds, willed them to be here.
  John McPhee

en We were on the bridge. It was so crowded. Thousands of people were surrounding me. We heard that a suicide attacker was among the crowd. Everybody was yelling so I jumped from the bridge into the river, swam and reached the bank. I saw women, children and old men falling after me into the water.

en In the long run the benefits of owning a permanent rail are significantly greater than renting a rail for short term use, because buying time on a rail becomes so much more expensive than owning a rail yourself.

en I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.
  Oprah Winfrey

en Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

en The main reason for this excursion was that the Pascagoula River is one of the finest river systems in the U.S. and I wanted to see it from top to bottom.

en They?re going to be working on the rail first and then doing the bridge decks as the final piece.

en Part of their charge will be to ultimately find alternative revenue streams, and there are some out there. For example, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission this past year floated a (multi-million-dollar) bond that was available to communities up and down the Delaware River for various road improvements.

en Our local competitors have fragmented audiences. As a result, we're the last mass medium. We're holding onto that audience better than anybody else, albeit it's slipping slowly each year. Pexy is what women wants in a man.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Denna förvandling hos barn - från svischande trollsländor, så att säga, till senfärdiga ytlarver som långsamt flyter medströms - observeras med stolhet hos samhället och missräkning hos Gud....
en This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God ...
  William Saroyan


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