Rising Quotes

852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors

Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the… — Annie Dillard
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash,… — Margaret Atwood
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze. — Janet Fitch
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then… — Marcus Aurelius
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish… — Karl Pilkington
The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting… — Barack Obama
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
No, nothing can change my world --Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising — Tite Kubo
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… — Alice Munro
Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as… — Ray Bradbury
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps… — Stephen King
I must go in, the fog is rising. — Emily Dickinson
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett
A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was a reaction to… — Josip Broz Tito
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is… — John Muir
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,… — Tom Robbins
And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a… — Edmond Rostand
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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