"Reborn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... swung along, You men, who only a while ago Were just a part of the city's throng Working for self, sedate and slow. But now—what a diff'rence! Living throbs Of the Nation's heart! Her reborn men; And some who saw you gulped back sobs— And wished you were marching home again! Our eyes were dim as you went past, For we knew ...
— With the Colors - Songs of the American Service • Everard Jack Appleton
... changes—or chances for entrepreneurs and protecting safety. Tonight, we can report and be proud of one of the best recoveries in decades. Send away the handwringers and the doubting Thomases. Hope is reborn for couples dreaming of owning homes and for risktakers with vision ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Ronald Reagan • Ronald Reagan
... the death of life, the utter annihilation of the living—save only the sparkle of reborn waters slowly covering the baked bed of the stone-edged pool—strange, luminous water, lacking the vital sky tint, enameled with a film of dust, yet, for all that, quickening with imprisoned brilliancy ...
— The Tracer of Lost Persons • Robert W. Chambers
... Orlov leaves his cellar, as he calls it, and accepts a position in the hospital where they are taking care of cholera patients. His devotion makes him an "indispensable man;" he is reborn, and, according to his own words, he is "ripe for life." It seems as if his end were going to be attained. But not so. Restlessness seizes him again. Orlov questions the value of his work. He saves sick people from the cholera. Is he doing good? The greatest ...
— Contemporary Russian Novelists • Serge Persky
... which our reason conceives, or shall we remain eternally in that which our eyes behold, that is to say, in numberless changing and ephemeral worlds? Shall we never leave those worlds which seem doomed to die and to be reborn eternally, to enter at last into that which, since all eternity, can neither have been born nor have died and which exists without either future or past? Shall we one day escape, with all that surrounds us, from the unhappy experiments, to find our way ...
— Death • Maurice Maeterlinck
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