Raised Quotes · Page 17

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

— George W. Bush

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

— George W. Bush

I was not raised to be someone's wife. I was raised so that things should be evenly distributed.

— Joie Lee

“We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle,…

— James Brolin

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above…

— George Bernard Shaw

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

— Katherine Heigl

My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and…

— Alan King

Everybody when you propose and talk about putting your life together, the ultimate goal is the same. I think sometimes people forget…

— Gabrielle Dennis

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred…

— Wilkie Collins

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and…

— Harvey Gantt

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my…

— Carre Otis

If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised…

— Andrew Jackson

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the…

— Josh McDowell

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all.…

— Martin Bashir

Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News,…

— Harold O. J. Brown

We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access…

— Thabo Mbeki

I was raised in a country [South Africa] with a lot of political turmoil. I was part of a culture and a…

— Charlize Theron

I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother…

— Lee Smith

See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are…

— Cormac McCarthy

I was never raised to think that I was pretty. It's not that I was raised to think I was unattractive, but…

— Mila Kunis

My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mom…

— Bill Rancic

So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating…

— Michael Hudson

Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student.…

— Wayne Allyn Root

This is your one chance. Tell me where the key is." "Okay." Serpine raised an eyebrow. "Really?" "No, only joking. Do your…

— Derek Landy

Maybe he likes the look of Mae," Nick drawled. "Don't be ridiculous." Nick raised his eyebrows. "Does he like the look of…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.

— Juliana of the Netherlands

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

— Russ Carnahan

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

— Mariella Frostrup

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.

— Miyavi

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

— L. P. Jacks

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New…

— Jake T. Austin

“I was raised to believe you should never be mean to someone who's given you head." (Jameson)”

— shukyou

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

— Olivier Martinez

Mama tried to raise a lady, but daddy won, he raised a lady who doesn't take shit from anyone.

— Miranda Lambert

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

— Friedrich Schiller

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

— Alice Englert

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

— Honore de Balzac

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

— Brother Ali