Rising Quotes
852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors
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I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled…
— Nelson Mandela
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Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the…
— Emil Nolde
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Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.
— Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
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The wind is rising...we must attempt to live.
— Paul Valery
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The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.
— Jerry Brown
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The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10…
— Low Thia Khiang
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change…
— Amy Goodman
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When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?
— Unknown Author
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I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising evidence…
— Larry Diamond
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The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a…
— Michael Muhammad Knight
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But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up,…
— Jaimal Yogis
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I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?
— Dennis Prager
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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came…
— Walt Whitman
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
— Nhat Hanh
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It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from…
— Marianne Williamson
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As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination…
— John F. Kennedy
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I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.
— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
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The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the…
— John Steinbeck
Who Wrote These Rising Quotes
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