Raised Quotes · Page 16

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

— Raymond Chandler

What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky.

— Justin Trudeau

“she had, after all, been raised among wolves, or in America; he was not sure there was a difference”

— Meredith Duran

I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

— Marco Rubio

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

— Mark Prior

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar…

— Zach Condon

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains…

— Petrarch

Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This…

— Mick Jagger

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest…

— Henry Louis Gates

It's how I grew up. It's how my dad raised me, and it's where I come from. We were never allowed to…

— Shawn Porter

I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write…

— Steve Earle

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of…

— Debby Ryan

The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days.…

— Craig Finn

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my…

— Johnny Vegas

We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as…

— Mary Robinson

I intend to discuss some perplexing issues which are raised once we embrace the hypothesis that society can be deschooled; to search…

— Ivan Illich

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let…

— Frank Schaeffer

Wo wei ni xie de,” he said, as he raised the violin to his left shoulder, tucking it under his chin. He…

— Cassandra Clare

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time…

— Sandra Bullock

All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled…

— Jill Scott

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had…

— Thomas de Quincey

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I was raised to believe you should never be mean to someone who’s given you head.”

— shukyou

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will…

— Will Smith

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

— Eric Balfour

I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.

— Bill Kaulitz

I will handle anything head on. It's how I was raised and how I plan on living.

— Anonymous

I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

— Matt Bomer

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

— JoBeth Williams

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

— Rob Thurman

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

— Andy Stanley

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

— Jasmine Guinness

I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

— Robert Jay Lifton

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver