Quotes About Renewal

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.

I used to always say teleportation for those times when you want to skip the commute, the traffic, the wait. Now, however, I think I'd really love the power to just heal people. Heal sickness, sadness, and pain. It's really all the world needs.

I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

We go into nature to transform.

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.

My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.

We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.'

A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.