Rising Quotes - Page 37

• Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon:
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.

  Robert Herrick

  Haste, Noon, Sun

  "To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

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• Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fire, Light, Long

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

  Fannie Hurst

  Perseverance, Struggle, Book

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• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

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• With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Rose, Vices, Frost

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.24, Courier Dover Publications

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• As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

  Robert Boyle

  Children, Men, Personality

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• A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.

  Jacques Roumain

  Dream, Nature, Rain

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• It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

  William J. Clinton

  America, People, Population

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from the past? Are we finally going to get serious about energy conservation? Of course not! We have the brains of mealworms! So we need to get more oil somehow. As far as I can figure, there's only one practical way to do this. That's right: We need to clone more dinosaurs. We have the technology, as was shown in two blockbuster scientific movies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Returns with Exactly the Same Plot. Once we have the dinosaurs, all we need is an asteroid.

  Dave Barry

  Past, Technology, Two

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• Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats.

  Anant Agarwal

  Tides, Boat, Online

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Being Different, Aversion, Rise Above

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 13, 2015

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• Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.

  Anna Brackett

  Taken, Home, Doe

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• We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying
  and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us
  and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Dying, World

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.604, Wordsworth Editions

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• The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.

  B. C. Forbes

  Reading, Exercise, Opportunity

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• So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Women, Ocean, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1859). “The Minister's Wooing”, p.66

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• Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

  Walter Wriston

  Rising Prices, Essentials, Wages

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letter Words.

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• Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Education, Teaching, Doctors

  British Medical Journal 1: 995 (1925)

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• If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Body, May

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2009). “Sermons on the Last Days”, p.179, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.

  Gunter Grass

  Communication, Loss, Expression

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• There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Crush, Real, Ideas

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America: 1638-1870”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Travel, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

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• Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

  Stanislaw Lem

  War, Needs, Nuclear

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “Peace on Earth”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Light, Fading

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.2353, Government Printing Office

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