Raised Quotes

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

Libraries raised me.

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.