Rising Quotes

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

Women are rising. It's going to get harder before it gets easier, but we can do it if we realize that we have the power. Women will always be the leaders of change.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising!

And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."

Families are always rising and falling in America.

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge.

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.