A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
John C. Calhoun

He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.
Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan Quayle

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.
Marvin Cohen

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
Robert Reich

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Robert Lynd

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
Yeardley Smith

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
Orville Wright

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
Michael Moore

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.
Nils-Axel Morner

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Ho Chi Minh