Yoshihiko Noda Quotes

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.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

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.

With loss comes growth.

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.'

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

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.

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)

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

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

America always recovers.

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Today is a new day for the land.

Everything can change. You can always have hope.