Famous quotes containing the word rise:
“Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“Thou gavst me life, but mortal; for that one
Favour Ill make full satisfaction:
For my life mortal, rise from out thy hearse,
And take a life immortal from my verse.”
—Robert Herrick (15911674)
“To-morrow I will have finished four-score years. I have lived to rise from the most despised and hated woman in all the world of fifty years ago, until now it seems as if I am loved by you all. If this is true, then I am indeed satisfied.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)