Quotes About Hell Raising

#1. Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Tupac Shakur

#2. I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.

Ted Nugent

#3. No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?

Catherine Lockwood

#5. I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Brian Dennehy

#6. Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

Humphrey Bogart

#7. Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.

Hank Williams Jr.

#8. If.
'If' always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if' depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I couldn't properly sense things if I was distracted. 'If' demanded my full presence and participation in 'now.
'If', as much as it scared me, also kept me sane.

Ransom Riggs

#9. For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air.

Matthew Pearl

#10. That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.

Mary Woronov

#11. I heard that Harry Nilsson had died. The secret to being a successful hellraiser, it seemed, was to stop raising hell before hell razed you.

Pete Townshend

#12. There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg

Alisa Steinberg

#13. Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#14. Every jungle creature for fifty or sixty yards started raising holy hell on the what-the-fuck-was-that party line.

Jim Butcher

#15. It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#16. You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

Mother Jones

#17. Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy ... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

Willie Dixon

#18. The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

Ashwin Sanghi

#19. I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

Brandon Lee

#20. It was late in September and a little more than twenty degrees, so what the hell were people smiling for? They ought to be raising their faces toward the ozone layer in horror.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

#21. You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#22. Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#23. Constant was a male and Mrs. Rumfoord was a female, and Constant imagined that he had the means of demonstrating, if given the opportunity, his unquestionable superiority.

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

Molly Ivins

#25. It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.

Andrea Yates

#26. Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.

Laozi

#27. Suffering is futile, my intelligence told me over and over, but I went on suffering voluntarily.

Henry Miller

#28. We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

Iris Dement

#29. Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

William Gilmore Simms

#30. I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#31. It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen