Don't ever burn a bridge. Let me ask you a question: can you walk on water? Don't burn no bridge. Only God can walk on water.

Know when to leave. Some bridges need to be burned. Use the light to find a better way.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

You can burn the bridge with the intent of hurting the merchant but remember in the end only the village suffers.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and 'Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really.

Keep some fires burning in your heart; I would extinguish it if I could, or get myself engulfed with it.

And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.

Crossing that bridge, With lessons I've learned. Playing with fire, And not getting burned. I may not know what you're going through. But time is the space, Between me and you. Life carries on... it goes on.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Dancing with the wind: the fire burns, the water drowns.

often you crash and burn.

When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.