Raised Quotes · Page 21

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose…

— Barbara Boxer

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be…

— Cecil Beaton

Malala Day is not my day. Today is the day of every woman, every boy and every girl who have raised their…

— Malala Yousafzai

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

— Julianne Malveaux

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.

— Alexa Vega

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

— Anonymous

Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of…

— Eleanor Brown

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

— Cassandra Clare

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to…

— Taylor Swift

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and…

— Kitty Kelley

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of…

— Carl Bernstein

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

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study -…

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

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

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

— Matthew McConaughey

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

— Julia Child

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

— Louise Bourgeois

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to…

— John Green

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

— Sam Heughan

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

— Jeffrey Donovan

I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.

— Anonymous

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy…

— Lev Grossman

The feminine is the foundation on which a peaceful and happy world is to be raised.

— Sathya Sai Baba

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

— Laura Schlessinger

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

— Tupac Shakur

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