Rebuilding Quotes - Page 2

• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas

  Dan Hill

  Jobs, School, Long

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• But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Looks, Vandalism

  The Death and Life of Great American Cities introduction (1961)

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• We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Promise, Demand, Shattered

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

  Richard Bach

  Expression, Perfect, Wreckage

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• Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
  Mistakes
  Delays
  Starting over
  Failure
  
  The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the "next step", and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired.

  Sark

  Dream, Mistake, Opposites

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• Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Community, Police, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Responsibility, Self, Order

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• As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Urban Renewal, Years

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

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• This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kings, Opportunity, New Orleans

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• It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Hope, Light

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.555, Delphi Classics

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• We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Investing, Development

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  Andrew Leigh

  Government, Political, Age

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• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Should Have, Iraq

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Gone, Trust Me

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• Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Cities, Weather, Challenges

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

  Billy Tauzin

  Country, New Orleans, Water

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• I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Believe, America, People

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• If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.

  Joe Scarborough

  Home, Issues, Wife

  "Joe Scarborough: I Might Run For Office Again", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2010.

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• STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Fall

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• For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

  Mark Emmert

  Years, Games, Worry

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• I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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• They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

  Christopher Paolini

  Uncles, Heart, Killers

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• All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

  Abdul Kalam

  War, Needs, Conflict

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• Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Hype, Negativity, President

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