Bess Myerson Quotes

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

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

Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

My sun sets to rise again.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Germany has been born anew.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

And even our present acres of death will someday bloom again.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.