The Bridge Quotes

“For everyone in this occupation, the skyline of New York is a family tree.”
― Gay Talese, The Bridge: The Building of Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

“When a bridge fails, the engineer who designed it is as good as dead.”
― Gay Talese, The Bridge: The Building of Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

“Indians hate to drive with license plates on their cars and would like to remove them, presumably so they’ll get fewer speeding tickets (although many Indians ignore all tickets on the grounds that they are not valid documents, having never been agreed to by treaty).”
― Gay Talese, The Bridge: The Building of Verrazano-Narrows Bridge