Quotes About Reconstruction

Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After the war, it was painstakingly rebuilt and that reconstruction is perceived as expressing the nation's determination to survive, to conserve its history and its culture.

From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of the E.U.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

With external help, even the countries ravaged by World War II recovered.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled.

the companion lion who overcomes all enemies, the kings and queens who command power over life, give us imaginative reconstructions of the small child's world. We

Repair my church which is in ruins.

But then I brought the shards back together above the dash, I drew in the web of the spider-line cracks... and he fell to the earth, and slept on the grass

Feminists want to free all women from the threat of harassment in the street through the reconstruction of male sexuality. [...] men would have to abandon objectifying exploitative sex and redefine altogether what they saw as sexuality.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

What can be done for these men? A lot. The art of phalloplasty—crafting a working penis from other parts of a patient's body—has come a long way (thanks in no small part to the transgender community).

phalloplasty—crafting a working penis from other parts of a patient's body—has

When a house no longer provided shelter, it turned out to be worth exactly the sum of its parts.

collective memory, is essentially a reconstruction of the past that adapts the image of historical facts to the beliefs and spiritual needs of the present.

Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, "reserv[ing] and set[ting] apart for the settlement of the negroes . . . the islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida," to be subdivided "so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground.