Raised Quotes
1788 Raised quotes by 1392 unique authors
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the…
— Cate Blanchett
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see…
— Unknown Author
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know…
— Lance Bass
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
— Boris Pasternak
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer,…
— Studs Terkel
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I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a…
— Alice Walker
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered…
— James Joyce
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I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My…
— Harry Reid
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Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on…
— Perry Como
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If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself,…
— Rene Magritte
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there…
— Laozi
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My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once…
— George Weah
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Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I…
— Boris Kodjoe
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Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New…
— Godfried Danneels
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I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb…
— Steve Zahn
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I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car.
— Mary Sue Terry
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As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in…
— Gautama Buddha
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No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation…
— Unknown Author
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But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself.…
— Gautama Buddha
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