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Quotes About Rebuilding

There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.
~ Victor Hugo
There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.
~ Kristin Hannah
Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?
~ Cassandra Clare
Once trust was lost it was impossible to salvage a relationship, she told me. She was right. I think that relationships only rarely survive once the inner sanctum has been violated. What forges a couple is the shared responsibility to defend that space.
~ Gioconda Belli
Alas! You have shattered the beautiful world with a brazen fist; It falls, it is scattered - By a demigod destroyed. We are trailing the ruins into the void and wailing over a beauty undone and ended. Earth's mighty son, more splendid rebuild it, you that are strong, build it again within! And begin a new life, a new way, lucid and gay, and play new songs.
~ Goethe
We need to end our country's counterproductive regime change war policies that have undermined our national security, destroyed so many countries, and taken so many lives. We must instead focus on investing in and rebuilding our communities right here at home.
~ Tulsi Gabbard
Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.
~ Martin O'Malley
I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.
~ Scott Moir
I had gone from being married with a kid, two cars, garage, nice house in a nice neighborhood to all of it gone.
~ Laura Jane Grace
In 2001, we didn't have an army; we had remnants of a dissolved army that had no hope. Our generals had literally become busboys.
~ Ashraf Ghani
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are suppose to go.
~ Nick Hornby
My own outlook and my values had been formed long ago. I did not believe in dividing people into rigid classes, and I did not believe in class struggle as a means to promote progress. I believed that to rebuild after so many years of war, China needed a peaceful enviroment and the unity of all sections of society, not perpetual revolution.
~ Nien Cheng
was more precious than gold. And some, like those who found and formed New Hope, rebuilt.
~ Nora Roberts
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They will have to destroy this city once we deliver the black box. The current bones will not accommodate the marrow of the device. They will have to raze the city and cart off the rubble to less popular boroughs and start anew.
~ Colson Whitehead
That's when that idiot viscount handed the rebuilding of Fairborough Hall off to that overbearing female.
~ Victoria Alexander
Obviously losing is very difficult, but when you're rebuilding you know you're going through stages, it's going to be tough, but as long as you draft the players and you see a bright future, I think it's going to be lights at the end of the tunnel, it's going to be very good, not only for me, but for the franchise and that's what's most important.
~ Larry Bird
We had to rebuild him, both mentally and physically, but you don't have to rebuild the heart when it's already there, big as all outdoors.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
~ Lauren Oliver
Dear me, dear me,' replied a testy voice, 'I am very sorry for it, but what am I to do? I can't build it up again. The chief magistrate of the city can't go and be a rebuilding of people's houses, my good sir. Stuff and nonsense!' 'But the chief magistrate of the city can prevent people's houses from having any need to be rebuilt, if the chief magistrate's a man, and not a dummy—can't he, my lord?' cried the old gentleman in a choleric manner.
~ Charles Dickens
than twenty-eight thousand buildings destroyed. Many of those buildings were homes. Whole communities had been decimated.
~ Gordon Thomas
In trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, There is no timeline. If you screw it up, you start over.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.
~ Bobby Jindal
The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
~ Eric Cantor