Raised Quotes
1788 Raised quotes by 1392 unique authors
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Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens…
— Michael Pollan
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Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the…
— Dan Brown
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Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if…
— Rick Riordan
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Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God…
— John Wesley
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People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate…
— Pat Conroy
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
— Audre Lorde
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Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
— Orson Scott Card
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These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk…
— Aravind Adiga
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Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time." Jace raised…
— Cassandra Clare
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Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body…
— Lois Lowry
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And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
— Raymond Chandler
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But the warriors true, the brave of heart Who valiently upheld the right They are raised on high to the velvet sky Bringing light to…
— Brian Jacques
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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them…
— Peter S. Beagle
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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained…
— Wilkie Collins
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Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone…
— Nicole Krauss
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Hellooo.” I held out my arm. “An amethyst woman with blue hair is telling you this.” She reached out and scraped her short nails over…
— Cheyenne McCray
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Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now." "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America…
— Noah Webster
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Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are…
— Charlaine Harris
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The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon…
— Hermann Hesse
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