Raise Quotes

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.