Rising

Rising may refer to:

In art and media:

  • Rising (novel), the last novel of R. C. Hutchinson
  • The following albums:
    • Rising (Rainbow album)
    • Rising (Donovan album)
    • Rising (Yoko Ono album)
    • Rising (Seraphim album)
    • Rising (Stuck Mojo album)
    • Rising (Great White album)
    • Rising (The Go Set album)
  • "Rising" (Stargate Atlantis), the series premiere of the science fiction television program Stargate Atlantis
  • "Rising" (Dark Angel), an episode of the television series Dark Angel

In architecture:

  • The Rising (9-11 memorial), a Westchester County, New York memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks.

In computing:

  • Metal Gear Solid Rising, a video game in the Metal Gear series
  • Rising, a Chinese anti-virus company

In cooking:

  • Rising, a stage in baking (see Proofing (baking technique))

In geography:

  • Rising City, Nebraska, a village in Nebraska, USA
  • Rising, the flow of water to the surface from underground (see spring (hydrosphere))

In history:

  • Rising, a synonym for uprising or rebellion
  • The 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Irish Rebellion


Famous quotes containing the word rising:

    “Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.”
    —James Reston (b. 1909)

    “From the rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)