High Rises

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or rises:

“The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Military glory—the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)