Raised Quotes

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

"Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood."

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Confidence begets confidence. Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Courage in danger is half the battle.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I raised four kids in six years.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

My dad died when I was 17. He had heart and other problems. He was a good father, lots of love. But he was affected by it. When he died, mom picked up the reins and raised six boys all on her own.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

I was raised in Mississippi, so heat and humidity is my bread and butter. It keeps me going. I can't stand cold weather.

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods.

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

I was born and raised Catholic.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

I was raised Catholic and now I am a Christian and follow of the Lord Jesus Christ. I made the change because the Holy Spirit revealed a truth to me.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.