Rising

Famous quotes containing the word rising:

“The first ones ever, oh, ever to know
of the rising of Jesus, his glory to be,
were Mary, Joanna, and Magdalene,
and blessed are they are they who see.”
—Linda Wilberger Egan (b. 1946)

“Consider the difference between looking and staring. A look is voluntary; it is also mobile, rising and falling in intensity as its foci of interest are taken up and then exhausted. A stare has, essentially, the character of a compulsion; it is steady, unmodulated, “fixed.””
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“You’ve watched me all your life,
I’ve clothed your wife,
put your two sons through college.
What good has it done?
Sun keeps rising every morning.”
—Ray Durem (1915–1963)