Editing Sydney Harbour Bridge (section)

==Quotations==
[[File:ASCE 1988 plaque Sydney Harbour Bridge.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The "International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark" plaque presented to Sydney Harbour Bridge by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1988]]

{{blockquote|There the proud arch Colossus like bestride<br />Yon glittering streams and bound the strafing tide.|Prophetic observation of Sydney Cove by [[Erasmus Darwin]], grandfather of [[Charles Darwin]], from his poem "Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany Bay", (1789).}}

{{blockquote|I open this bridge in the name of His Majesty the King and all the decent citizens of NSW.|Francis de Groot "opening" the Sydney Harbour Bridge, (1932). His organisation, the New Guard, had resented the fact that King George V had not been asked to open the bridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sydney-harbour-bridge.bos.nsw.edu.au/building-the-bridge/bradfield-and-lang.php|title=JJC Bradfield and JT Lang: the movers and shakers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202110520/http://sydney-harbour-bridge.bos.nsw.edu.au/building-the-bridge/bradfield-and-lang.php|archive-date=2 December 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=12 April 2019|df=dmy-all}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|To get on in Australia, you must make two observations. Say, "You have the most beautiful bridge in the world" and "They tell me you trounced England again in the cricket." The first statement will be a lie. Sydney Bridge {{sic}} is big, utilitarian and the symbol of Australia, like the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower. But it is very ugly. No Australian will admit this.|[[James Michener]] assesses the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book ''[[Return to Paradise (novel)|Return to Paradise]]'', (1951).<ref>Michener, James, ''Return to Paradise'', (1951), Corgi Books:London, page 275</ref>}}

{{blockquote|...in a gesture of anomalous exhilaration, at the worst time of the depression Sydney opened its Harbour Bridge, one of the talismanic structures of the earth, and by far the most striking thing ever built in Australia. At that moment, I think, contemporary Sydney began, perhaps definitive Sydney. | [[Jan Morris]] gives her own assessment of the bridge in her book ''Sydney'', (1982)<ref>Morris, Jan, ''Sydney'' (1982), [[Faber & Faber]], London. Page 24</ref>}}

{{blockquote|...you can see it from every corner of the city, creeping into frame from the oddest angles, like an uncle who wants to get into every snapshot. From a distance it has a kind of gallant restraint, majestic but not assertive, but up close it is all might. It soars above you, so high that you could pass a ten-storey building beneath it, and looks like the heaviest thing on earth. Everything that is in it – the stone blocks in its four towers, the latticework of girders, the metal plates, the six-million rivets (with heads like halved apples) – is the biggest of its type you have ever seen... This is a great bridge.|American travel-writer [[Bill Bryson]]'s impressions of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book ''[[Down Under (book)|Down Under]]'' (2000).<ref name="bryson">{{cite book|last=Bryson|first=Bill|title=Down Under|year=2000|publisher=[[Transworld (company)|Transworld]]|isbn=0-552-99703-X|pages=80–81}}</ref>}}

{{wide image|Sydney Harbour Bridge night.jpg|1000px|Sydney Harbour Bridge as viewed from [[Kirribilli, New South Wales|Kirribilli]] on the North Shore, with the [[Sydney Opera House]] on the left|center|dir=rtl}}