Rises

Famous quotes containing the word rises:

“I’m hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds of lambs, the she-dogs, until it seems the whole country rises to show me its tender sleeping young while I feel two hammer-blows here instead of the mouth of my child.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“I done et so free o’ fish, my stommick rises and falls with the tide.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)