Thomas Menino Quotes

'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together.

In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

People like us we gotta stick together Keep your head up nothing lasts forever.

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

There will be times in South Africa when we will be challenged as a team. We have to stand up to that.

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

Bad days don't always stay.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.

I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.