George Bridges

George Bridges may refer to:

  • Tom Bridges (1871–1939, actual first name was George), British military officer and Governor of South Australia
  • George Washington Bridges (1825–1873), American politician
  • George Wilson Bridges (1788–1863), writer, photographer and Anglican cleric
  • Sir George Talbot Bridges, 8th Baronet (1818–1899) of the Bridges baronets
  • Alderman George Bridges (1764–1835), banker and merchant.

Famous quotes containing the words george and/or bridges:

    “No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.”
    —English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

    “... 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)