Rise Quotes

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.