Famous Raising Words
790 Raising quotes by 670 unique authors
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Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000…
— Jon Stewart
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What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary…
— Garrison Keillor
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Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to…
— Andre Malraux
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A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising.
— David Ruggles
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In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
— Rosalind Wiseman
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Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and…
— Jean Giraudoux
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
— Matt Groening
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For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind…
— Arthur Miller
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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
— Jim Ryun
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Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their…
— Paul Hawken
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No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose…
— Herbert Spencer
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We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who…
— Eda LeShan
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Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I…
— Lucas Neff
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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would…
— Stevie Nicks
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I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that…
— Chris Ofili
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Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
— Jacob Lew
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
— Oren Peli
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Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
— Li Peng
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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of…
— Christina Romer
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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than…
— Christina Romer
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