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Quotes About Repair

You Can Grow New Neurons It appears that we may be able to grow new neurons through a protein called BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor). It seems to work by messaging genes in nerve cells to regrow, repair, and reconnect them. How do you boost
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.
~ Frank Capra
The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.
~ George, Lord Halifax
We are the great miracle of creation! But from some blows this miraculous body cannot repair itself!
~ J. M. Coetzee
I pray our bond can be repaired, and I pray she comes to understand our bond was forged and will only hold strong in death.
~ J.D. Robb
I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.
~ J.R. Ward
My twin's not broken. He's ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken, maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury him.
~ J.R. Ward
Humanity's gift to the universe. Duct Tape.
~ Jack Campbell
The city of Johannesburg built an app because they are getting so many complaints on Facebook and Twitter about potholes. The app allows you to report a pot hole and take a picture of it. Then, you can actually track the progress in terms of the repair, when it happened.
~ Ory Okolloh
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
~ Swedish Proverb
Sometimes things need to get broken
~ T. Greenwood
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.
~ Tayari Jones
When you have seen your mother shattered, there's no putting her back together. There will always be seams, chipped edges, and clumps of dried glue. Even if you could get her to where she looks the same, she will never be stronger than a cracked plate.
~ Tayari Jones
You know when you walk around in your shoes too much and get a hole in the sole? The rubber is split - it's like your shoes are talking.
~ Ghostface Killah
Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.
~ Nancy Werlin
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
~ Alice Sebold
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.
~ John Ford
it would take much, much less energy to repair our world than for all of us to travel to another one.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Once Mullah Nasruddin's favorite clock stopped working, so he took it for repair. When the repairperson took the back off the clock and turned it over, a dead fly fell out. "So that's the problem," said Nasruddin. "The little mechanic who operated it has died!
~ Neil Douglas-Klotz
There may be a lesson here for our time, too. The first era of financial globalization took at least a generation to achieve. But it was blown apart in a matter of days. And it would take more than two generations to repair the damage done by the guns of August 1914.
~ Niall Ferguson
Porque una cicatriz significa que has sobrevivido. Significa que eres dura y que no es tan fácil matarte. Significa que has vivido. Una cicatriz es algo que hay que admirar. [...] -Se equivoca. Solo quiere decir que estás rota. [...] -Pero a veces, si trabajas muy duro, puedes reparar una rotura y cerrarla con más fuerza que nunca.
~ Christopher Paolini
As they say, the first step in fixing something is getting it to break.
~ Tracy Kidder