Raised Quotes · Page 35

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

— Dory Previn

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new…

— Samuel Goldwyn

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

— Jai Rodriguez

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

— Melissa Gilbert

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and…

— Natalie Babbitt

Womenfolk raised me and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home

— Gil Scott-Heron

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

— Kate Clinton

My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in France. She's very commercial and…

— Emmanuelle Seigner

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority…

— Anonymous

Since the world began, God has raised up prophets who speak the will of heaven to the people of their times. It…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars.…

— Henry Abbey

I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways…

— Goldie Hawn

But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby…

— Anonymous

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs.…

— Darius Rucker

People have all kinds of approaches when they come up to me. Some of them are so nervous: 'You know, Mr. Cosby,…

— Bill Cosby

I wasn't political in 1984, but I did have a friend in Winnemucca who was a 'Southern Democrat.' He was raised in…

— Sharron Angle

If I've operated on 8,000 brain tumours, if 7,999 patients were satisfied, if I'd done the right thing, if I have funded…

— Charles Teo

I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape…

— Rush Limbaugh

Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In…

— Janice Raymond

We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal…

— Nathaniel Branden

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury raised cautions against mass media, especially the television, which dumb down human sensibilities and coerce everybody's thoughts…

— Yasumasa Morimura

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and…

— Raul Labrador

Ultimately, our lives hinge on the ability to make right choices and decisions. By God's grace, I made the most important decision…

— R.A. Dickey

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

— Anne Lamott

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

— Grover Norquist

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

— Daniel A. D'Aniello

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

— Erma Bombeck

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

— Herta Muller

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

— Robert Griffin III

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore…

— Rita Ora

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

— Winona Ryder

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a…

— Chuck Feeney

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.

— Jon Stewart

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or…

— Deepika Padukone

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by…

— Carson Daly

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents…

— Robert Breault

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

— Conor Oberst