(218 quotes found)
“America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.”
Warren G. Harding
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
John Ruskin
“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age”
Walter Savage Landor
“Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.”
Camille Paglia
“When your mission is to "restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary”
Paul Begala
“So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.”
Alexander Eliot
“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”
John Steinbeck
“New Orleans won't be safe from another storm like Katrina until we restore this hurricane buffer.”
Robert Twilley
“The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.”
Allan Palmer
“It is paramount that public confidence be restored.”
Carol Hallett