Raised Quotes · Page 34

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

— Ezekiel Elliott

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

...taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes

— Thomas Paine

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart…

— Francine Rivers

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should…

— Thabo Mbeki

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

— Michael Crichton

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

— Trey Songz

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and…

— William Hazlitt

That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so.…

— Jonathan Chait

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is…

— Grace Meng

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to…

— Raymond Chandler

Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to…

— Vladimir Putin

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child…

— John Assaraf

“I've raised you to be honest and kind. I've raised you to be brave and strong. If you become the man I…

— T.J. Klune

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they…

— Elizabeth Montagu

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work,…

— Diana Lopez

She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic…

— Steven Levenkron

I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known…

— Stephen King

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality…

— Pearl S. Buck

My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently,…

— Robyn

When I first raised the issue of the so-called Islamic State at the Munich Security Conference in February, speaking about its economy,…

— Ashraf Ghani

My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been…

— Freddy Adu

Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood.

— Rick Riordan

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

— Anne Enright

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

— Tessa Thompson

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know,…

— George Allen

L.A. kinda raised me a little bit as a 21-year-old kid from Oklahoma.

— Matt Kemp

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

— Audre Lorde

Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

— John Fugelsang

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

— Hilda Solis

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

— Slash

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

— Jim Rash

God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.

— Stanley Hauerwas

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually…

— Paris Hilton

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and…

— Jimmy Connors

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

— Zane Grey

I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise…

— Clay Aiken