Quotes About Transformation

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

Hope is the seed of liberation.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

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.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.