Raised Quotes · Page 20

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and…

— Paul Cook

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

— Robert Anton Wilson

We are made for the same home and power that raised Christ from the dead.

— Lysa TerKeurst

The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people…

— Andre Ward

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

— Andrea Bocelli

I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm…

— Tammy Blanchard

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so…

— Robert Herjavec

Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born…

— Willa Cather

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his…

— Jim Webb

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who…

— Michael Grant

I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof…

— Joy Bryant

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the…

— Rhea Perlman

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even…

— Saul Rubinek

Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and…

— John F. Kennedy

With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable…

— Charlaine Harris

O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night.…

— Saint Augustine

The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed…

— Samuel Johnson

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up…

— William J. Clinton

...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give…

— Emma Watson

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and…

— Michael Ruse

Obviously its nice to give your time and especially when there is money being raised. It's rewarding.

— Chelsea Handler

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect…

— Marlene Dietrich

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told…

— Harry Frankfurt

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you…

— Madeleine Albright

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

— Rush Limbaugh

“He raised an eyebrow. "That was easier than I expected. My body must have addled your good sense.”

— Michelle Hodkin

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what…

— Anonymous

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

— Miranda Lambert

I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation.

— Barack Obama

I had many clients who didn't respect me, probably because of how they were raised. We're all the walking wounded.

— Annie Sprinkle

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.

— Natasha Leggero

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

— Jesse Jackson

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

— Colin Powell

Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

— Rachel Caine

We listen to the early '90s Hip-Hop that we were raised on. I still think that stuff is better than anything you…

— Eyedea