Jeanette Winterson Quotes

When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding lives and livelihoods.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Everything changed after Katrina. It's a new New Orleans now and I think it's better. It was a wake-up call and it rebuilt and cleaned up the city. It all happened for a reason. I'm now grateful for Katrina.

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'

With destruction comes renovation.

Because you think an explosion has taken place and you're looking at the shards and you say, 'Well, can we put this back together?' And by God, maybe you can put it back together. And maybe it won't be the same, but maybe it will be different, and maybe it can even be better in a different way.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

The idea of reinvention has always seemed bizarre to me.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

Part of life is dying and you just have to pick up where you left off.

With loss comes growth.

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong - but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

New things had to be made out of fragments.

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.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

Germany has been born anew.

It's in our blood to start again.

What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain-- What is gone is gone.