Quotes About Renewal

This ragged heart, she said, pulling at her kimono. I should rip it out and use it for compost.

It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, there was not such thing as an empty canvas.

That was how you did it. You let go, you left all that behind, you refused to remember. You let the dark in.

The phoenix must burn to emerge

I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

She had drawn strength from the woods. No, not that. She had drawn strength from the God who had made the woods.

I stood too. I didn't want to return to the village. I disliked even more the thought of returning to the small cabin. I was so thankful that it would soon be spring again and I could enjoy more and more of the outdoors.

I don't want to get married unless they change the marriage laws. You should have to sign a marriage contract for no more than five years, with an option to opt out.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Catman - what I really like about him is he's a really grounded character in terms of - he's an excellent tracker. We're giving him a set of new skills for 'Secret Six' as it starts again anew. But he's very sexy, very dangerous, unpredictable.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

Life goes on, and we have to keep coming up with fresh ideas.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Do you think that too, " she said, "that I have slept too long in the moonlight?

If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.