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Quotes About Renewal

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
~ Ahmed Zaki Yamani
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
~ Freya Stark
I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
~ Bill Viola
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.
~ Craig Childs
If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~ Gelett Burgess
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
~ Austin O'Malley
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.
~ Nathalia Crane
Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.
~ Robert Browning
I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.
~ Patrick Kelly
Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
~ Deborah Copaken
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...
~ Alice McDermott
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
~ Martin Luther
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
~ Lord Byron
It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.
~ Neal Shusterman, Everwild
It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.
~ Emily Procter
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
~ Maya Angelou
Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.
~ Maya Angelou
As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
~ Wendell Berry
Shall we do without hope? Some days there will be none. But now to the dry and dead woods floor they come again, the first flowers of the year, the assembly of the faithful, the beautiful, wholly given to being.
~ Wendell Berry
I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V
~ Wendell Berry
You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.
~ Wendell Berry