I Was Raised Quotes

I Was Raised Quote of the day

Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise our standard of living. He died to seek and to save those who are lost.

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

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, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

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 real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.

Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Be true. Be beautiful. Be free. In the midst of segregation and racism Mamma raised us to be independent and free. We saw ourselves as citizens of the world, not of a block.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Children raised with respect and inner direction tend to play well in groups, at times quite peacefully, each involved in her own project or involved with the other chidren.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly.

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

My dad was amazing. He raised five boys. All by himself. Without the rest of us knowing.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.