Al Maqta Bridge between Abu Dhabi and mainland (United Arab Emirates)

“Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to using the wealth which God has provided us in the service of the nation.”

Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama (United States)

"The Americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing. But they gave courage to millions. They held no elected office. But they led a nation."

Barack Obama 

in 50th anniversary of Selma Marches

Tyne Bridge over the Tyne River in Newcastle, England (United Kingdom)

 
“It will help to bring back to your city the full tide of prosperity”.

King George V

in the bridge inauguration

Lupu Bridge crossing the Huangpu River in Shanghai (China)

"A soaring box-arch bridge with a record span, clean impressive lines and innovative use of the side spans of the arch and the deck to resist the thrust of the main arch."

Lupu Bridge, described at reception of

Outstanding Structure Award

Hernando de Soto Bridge over the Mississipi River between New Memphis and Memphis, Tennessee (United States)

"What I'm afraid of, is that it's going to be much easier to have a bedroom community on the west side of the river and we'll lose a lot of our folks."

Memphis Mayor Wyeth Chandler,

about this bridge

Bridge over the Theodore Roosevelt Lake in the Gila County, Arizona (United States)

"I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."

Theodore Roosevelt

Sartakovsky Railway Bridge over the Oká River near Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia)

A wind was howling and knew not about whom,
inspiring trembling in our heart.
a peasant woman walked with milk,
walked along the railroad track.
But at seven sharp, in due form,
tearing in full career from the Oka,
having flashed behind the signal-posts,
an express train takes off’.

In a poem by Mayakovski

Old Bellows Falls Arch Bridge over the Connecticut River between Bellows Falls (Vermont) and North Walpole (New Hampshire) in United States

On thy lov'd banks, sweet river, free
From wordly care and vanity,
I could my every hour confine,
And think true happiness was mine.

Sweet river, in thy gentle stream
Myriads of funny beings swim:
The watchful trout with speckled pride;
The perch, the dace in silvered pride;
The princely salmon, sturgeon brave,
And lamprey, emblem of the knave.
...

From the Ode To Connecticut River

Josias Lyndon Arnold

Eitai Bridge crossing the Sumida River in Tokyo (Japan)

"Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.” 

Christopher Barzak

Ernesto Dornelles Bridge over the Rio das Antas between the cities of Bento Gonçalves and Veranopolis, state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)

Poderoso Rio das Antas

por todos é respeitado

Nasce no alto da serra

na divisa do estado

Serpenteia a região

recrutando os banhados

Na fazenda São José

por ali que fui criado

,,,,,

Rio Das Antas

Song by Ory Sousa Gaucho

Harbor Bridge over the port of Corpus Christi in Texas (United States)

I worked the rigs from three to midnight 

On the Corpus Christi Bay 

I'd get off and drink till daylight 
Sleep the morning right away 

I had a plan to take some wages 

Leave the rigs behind for good 

But that life it is contagious 

And it gets down in your blood

Theme by Johny Rodríguez

Debilly Footridge over the Seine River in Paris (France)

Mais oui, je suis une girafe,

M’a raconté la tour Eiffel.

Et si ma tête est dans le ciel,

C’est pour mieux brouter les nuages,

Car ils me rendent éternelle.

Mais j’ai quatre pieds bien assis

Dans une courbe de la Seine.

On ne s’ennuie pas à Paris :

Les femmes, comme des phalènes, 

Les hommes, comme des fourmis, 

Glissent sans fin entre mes jambes 

Et les plus fous, les plus ingambes 

Montent et descendent le long 

De mon cou comme des frelons. 

La nuit, je lèche les étoiles. 

Et si l’on m’aperçoit de loin 

C’est que très souvent, j’en avale 

Une sans avoir l’air de rien. 

Poem by Maurice Careme

Lupu Bridge spanning the Huangpu River in Shanghai (China)

LONGEST ARCH BRIDGE IN THE WORLD FROM 2003 TO 2009

Pasarelle Debilly (Debilly Footbridge) over the Seine River in Paris (France)

"Visto el magnífico espectáculo como lo vería un águila, es decir, desde las alturas de la torre Eiffel, aparece la ciudad fabulosa de manera que cuesta convencerse de que no se asiste a la realización de un ensueño"

París according to Rubén Darío

Svinesund Bridge over Iddefjord joining Stromstad (Sweden) and Halden (Norway)

"King Harald of Norway and King Carl Gustav of Sweden on Friday opened the new four lane road bridge spanning the Svinesund fjord between the two countries. Around 15,000 people in festive mood attended the ceremony. King Harald of Norway and King Carl Gustav of Sweden on Friday opened the new four lane road bridge spanning the Svinesund fjord between the two countries." 

Newspaper Norway Post

June 1st, 2005