Good Quote by Ritchie Blackmore

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

My heart is with the standards. That's what I was raised on. I'm perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I'm pretty versatile.

— Toni Tennille

The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes…

— Jamie Glazov

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights…

— Ayn Rand

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the…

— Charles Stross

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions…

— Sandra Bullock

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are…

— Rush Limbaugh

Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards,…

— Edgar Meyer

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

— Olivier Martinez

I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and…

— Matthew Quick

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is…

— Abel Ferrara

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.…

— Phil Robertson

The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the…

— Kim Alexis

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

— Rob Thurman

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon