Rising Up Quotes
43 quotes by 38 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 nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching…
— Raymond Moody
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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from…
— Horace Bushnell
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Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown…
— Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
— Sylvia Plath
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So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and…
— Charles Frazier
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In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up.
— Swami Vivekananda
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We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It is about a…
— James Jordan
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Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish…
— Ramana Maharshi
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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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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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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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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
— Anton Chekhov
Who Wrote These Rising Up Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 43 Rising Up Quotes, led by these top contributors: