Crystal Bridges Museum

Famous quotes containing the words crystal, bridges and/or museum:

    “Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “... this single span,
    Reaching for the world, as our lives do,
    As all lives do, reaching that we may give
    The best of what we are and hold as true:
    Always it is by bridges that we live.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)