Rising Quotes - Page 23

• Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

  George Will

  Baseball, Games, Long

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• The only other job that I've ever had that provided that time in the morning, where you're going to work and you can't wait to get there, and the sun's rising, and you are moving towards something you look forward to, was getting up and doing every day, was being a carpenter.

  Mark Harmon

  Morning, Jobs, Moving

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• Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Phoenix, Ashes

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• A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Sunrise, Dawn

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• Socialism would gather all power to
  the supreme party and party leaders,
  rising like stately pinnacles
  above their vast bureaucracies of
  civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Leader, Socialism

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting for rearing the rising generation than the traditional family, where a father and a mother work in harmony to provide for, teach, and nurture their children. Where this ideal does not exist, people strive to duplicate its benefits as best they can in their particular circumstances.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

  Celia Rees

  Fall, Light, Blood

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• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

  Wallace Stegner

  Father, Writing, Self

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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• I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Giving, Relaxation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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• Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Beauty, Dream, Humanity

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Challenges, Age

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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 His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

  John Shirley

  Men, Ladders, Slipping

  John Shirley (2011). “BioShock: Rapture”, p.32, Macmillan

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• The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

  Edward Abbey

  Cost Of Living, Air, Noses

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

  Edward Abbey

  America, Levels, Elsewhere

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

  Martin Amis

  Running, New York, Artist

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.64, Random House

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• I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Years, Practice

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• As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go and leave the happy View I had of being a rich and thriving Man in my new Plantation, only to pursue a rash and immoderate Desire of rising faster than the Nature of the Thing admitted; and thus I cast my self down again into the deepest Gulph of human Misery that ever Man fell into, or perhaps could be consistent with Life and a State of Health in the World.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Self, Views

  Daniel Defoe (1998). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.

  Hannah Arendt

  Real, Sight, Quality

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, America, People

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.813, Best Books on

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• 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.

  Hugo Chavez

  Saying No, Imperialism, Fascism

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• Families are always rising and falling in America.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fall, America

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• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Dark, Fire

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.404, Courier Corporation

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• I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the Earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape - it makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away, it really is a small planet.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, Thinking, Space

  "And You Think You've Got Problems!" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2016.

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