A Quote by David Jeremiah

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

David Jeremiah

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David Jeremiah
American - Priest
Born: February 13, 1941

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Dick Gregory

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun.

James Madison

More people worship the rising than the setting sun

Pompey

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Harry Crews

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

Plutarch

As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people.

Sharan Burrow

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

W. H. Auden

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

John Muir

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

Robert Kennedy

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

Samuel Adams

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.