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Quotes About Risings

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious civil war, not a nationalistic movement.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~ George Whitefield
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~ George Whitefield
The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.
~ Linda Colley