Raised Quotes · Page 18

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

...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...

— Stephen King

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

— Kamala Harris

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

— Claudius Claudianus

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

— Jenny Joseph

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

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish…

— Selenis Leyva

God picked a junior high girl [to be Jesus' mother]. Jesus was raised by a woman who today, we wouldn't even let…

— Mark Driscoll

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and…

— Dominique Moceanu

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to…

— Hank Williams III

I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table…

— Jeanine Tesori

Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think…

— Nestor Carbonell

Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in response. "Well, aside from mine of…

— Cassandra Clare

An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for…

— Nick Hornby

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse.…

— Kathleen Parker

I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was…

— Emily Haines

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University…

— Ryan McPartlin

Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Those blue eyes glinted with uncivilized suggestion. A faint smile was tucked in the corner of his wide mouth. Definitely wouldn't want…

— Lisa Kleypas

He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in…

— Anonymous

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in…

— George Ryan

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

— Clive Cussler

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

— Stevie Wonder

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

— John McAfee

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

— Foxy Brown

I do not want to be the center of attention. I think it's just the way I was raised; the way my…

— Anthony Rendon

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

— Daisy Donovan

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

— E. L. Doctorow

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

— Rihanna

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

— Amber Tamblyn

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very…

— Lara Flynn Boyle

Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.

— Stephen Baldwin

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to…

— Aubrey Plaza

You don't just wake up one day and become a country girl. It's how you were raised. If it's not who you…

— Anonymous

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.

— Artie Shaw

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

— Frank Mankiewicz

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal