Raised Quotes · Page 23

I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went…

— Pierre Omidyar

No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our…

— John Cassian

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

— Kaya Scodelario

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

— Adam Sandler

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

— John C. Maxwell

My bar has been raised so high that it has to be something really big to get me riled up and bring…

— Caleb Plant

There's nothing weirder than getting raised up in the middle of a stage on a platform.

— Gracie Abrams

Romney raised $10 million. That’s a dollar for every position he’s had on healthcare.

— Jay Leno

My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got…

— Jakob Dylan

There comes a time when parents needs to stop thinking about his or her looks and focus his or her energies on…

— Tonycvbchicago

But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course…

— David Rittenhouse

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think…

— Boris Kodjoe

Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow.…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as…

— Jessica Stroup

The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you…

— Liam Neeson

The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and…

— Francis Schaeffer

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail…

— Boris Pasternak

I sat up and the blankets fell away.I looked down and found I was wearing pokemon pajamas. "Sadie,"I said,"I'm going to kill…

— Rick Riordan

But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us,…

— Ignatius of Antioch

Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey…

— Chris Hedges

The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich…

— Ludwig von Mises

“For by the word upstart I mean everyone who has raised himself through his own efforts to a social level higher than…

— Adolf Hitler

Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most…

— Anonymous

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

— Kirstie Alley

Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the…

— Donald Dunn

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

— Anonymous

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt.

— Robert Jenson

All the sick are gonna be healed, the dead are gonna be raised and nations are gonna turn to God in a…

— Paul Cain

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

— Adam Sandler

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

— Jane Fonda

I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.

— Taylor Louderman

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

— Ray LaHood

I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

— Kim Kardashian

I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

— Shelley Long

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

— William Joyce

I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!

— Jonathan Groff

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.

— Paz Vega