Rises

Famous quotes containing the word rises:

“When virtue rises one foot, the devil rises ten.”
—Chinese proverb.

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

“What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)