Rising Quotes
852 quotes by 679 authors
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your…
— Chinua Achebe
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.
— David Attenborough
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are…
— Teresa of Avila
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
— Diane Ackerman
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However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue…
— Tim Bishop
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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future,…
— James Buchan
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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
— George W. Bush
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Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North…
— David Cameron
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance…
— Lord Chesterfield
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This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the…
— Chris Christie
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
— Eric Alterman
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was…
— Jacques Charles
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The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day.
— Yosa Buson
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In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never…
— Lee Strobel
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
— Samuel Johnson
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Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
— Walter Hilton
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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.
— Lydia M. Child
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