It's easy to destroy but hard to recreate.

Easy to destroy everything but hard to get a thing.

— Anonymous

“It is easy to destroy, but it is hard to create. Do not destroy what your brother creates.”

— Pearl S. Buck

When I direct - everything I've directed has had improv in it, because I think there's something special in a performance the first time…

— Milana Vayntrub

When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are…

— Liev Schreiber

“[My father,] A man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.”

— Nadia Hashimi

“Glorious creation, so easy to destroy, yet the palette of possibility somehow prevails.”

— Laurence Overmire

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

— Seth Godin

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

— George Packer

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

— Jeanette Winterson

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

— Alexander Payne

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

— Warsan Shire

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look…

— Ken Robinson

Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make…

— Michael Korda

It's amazing how you get to recreate somebody else's life on-screen. It's wonderful when you get responses like, 'You actually look like him.'

— Rajkummar Rao

It's natural that I want to recreate a home.

— Robin Birley