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Quotes About Rises

Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in.
~ Philipp Blom
She disappears after she's fed dinner, to who knows where, and returns sometime after the sun rises, but that's an approximate schedule. She's a Mediterranean cat, after all.
~ Rabih Alameddine
And still the grossest iridescence of oceanHowls hoo and rises and howls hoo and falls.
~ Wallace Stevens
The palm at the end of the mind,Beyond the last thought, rises…A gold-feathered birdSings in the palm.
~ Wallace Stevens
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.
~ Steven Wilson
The cookie tray goes round and round. Outside, the moon rises. The wind is still. All over town, leaves hang on trees like open hands.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Augustine, the faithful interpreter of them, exclaims: "Our Savior, to teach us that belief comes as a gift and not from merit, says: `No one comes to me, unless my Father ... draw him' [John 6:44], and' ' . . it be granted him by my Father' [John 6:651. It is strange that two hear: one despises, the other rises up! Let him who despises impute it to himself; let him who rises up not arrogate it to himself.
~ Richard Lischer
We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking? When the sun rises we'll know what to do.
~ Leif Enger
But all I can say is our future is airborne. I never saw a winter so blue. We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking? When the sun rises we'll know what to do.
~ Leif Enger
On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned
~ Edward Abbey
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
~ John Dryden
Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes.
~ Marilynne Robinson
A ten days' journey from the Garamantes there is another salt hill and spring. It is the home of the Atarantes, who alone of all known nations use no names. (Collectively they are known as the Atarantes, but no individual is given a particular name.) They curse the sun when it rises high, and abuse it in the foulest terms, because it burns and wastes both the people themselves and their land.
~ Herodotus
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
~ Ben Stein
Semper Fidelis Dawn star flares on disk of night I fall, sun rises
~ Neal Stephenson
Darkness doesn't fall, he thought as he swayed to the radio, it rises up from the bottom of the sea and begins to breathe around us.
~ Colum McCann
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, / Hath had elsewhere its setting, / And cometh from afar . . . From God, who is our home.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The Sun is Low, to Say the Least, Although it is Well-Red; Yet, Since it Rises in the Yeast, It Should be Better Bred!
~ Gelett Burgess
All the rest is a postscript - the cloud of ash that rises into the stratosphere from the volcano, circles around the earth, and continues to rain down on all its continents for years.
~ Harry Mulisch
Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably sold more albums, because in that era you couldn't steal them; you had to go to a record store to buy them. But Macklemore had more power.
~ Sir Mix-a-Lot