Rising Quotes

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 neck.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.