Quotes About Reconciliation

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia

One good thing is that I've been following the priest's orders to meditate on how I've hurt people. It's helped me recognize that we can't help but make mistakes, even when our intentions are good.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

This is a divisive issue, but I really hope for unification. Even though we have been divided for a long time, we are all Koreans, so we should live together in a united Korea.

We need to unify Brazil, to pacify it.

Hopefully, my administration will be known as a healing and unifying administration.

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.

If we look at where relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were in 1945 and where we stand now, then we have achieved so much.

The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

We must unite to build a safe, new Kenya.

After a long period of division, I will unite Israel.

My job is to unite everybody, bring everybody back together.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would also be an official apology from the United States government for slavery.

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

Finding common ground means reaching out with respect and aloha - despite the issues that divide us, despite the hurt, despite the fear - and recognize what unites us as human beings.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

The task ahead of us will be extremely challenging as the Tory party continue with their austerity agenda and as we continue to resolve the issues of the past and build unity, reconciliation, and equality.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.