Top 100 Quotes About Raising
#1. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
Christiana Figueres
#2. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#3. Cutting benefits & raising retirement age are wrong answers.
Barack Obama
#4. There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
Ezra Taft Benson
#5. Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#6. At the sight of a Sanza brother offering cards, every guard in the room took a step back; some of them visibly struggled with the idea of raising their crossbows again.
Scott Lynch
#7. The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
Lance Armstrong
#8. My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy
#9. I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
Paula Cole
#10. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#11. It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.
Lemony Snicket
#12. Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles ...
Stanislaw Lem
#13. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.
Thomas Perez
#14. As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.
LZ Granderson
#15. When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.
Gloria Estefan
#16. Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
Mike Pence
#17. Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.
Candace Cameron
#18. Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
Rick Perry
#19. Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.
Chris Christie
#20. I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.
Hillary Clinton
#21. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
David Rockefeller
#22. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot
#23. Don't worry me now, Fagin!' replied the girl, raising her head languidly. 'If Bill has not done it this time, he will another. He has done many a good job for you, and will do many more when he can; and when he can't, he won't, so no more about that.
Charles Dickens
#24. [Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.
Shannon Woodward
#25. The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
Bell Hooks
#26. Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.
Humphrey Bogart
#27. The business of raising animals for food (with its continuous heavy waste stream of methane and nitrous oxide - leading global warming gases) is responsible for about 18% of global warming. Some scientists actually say the number is closer to 50%.
Kathy Freston
#28. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
Jan Blaustone
#29. There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
Christina Applegate
#30. Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous
interconnecting of miracle,
but we don't always realise it.
Paul Morris Segal
#31. The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next.
Jung Yun
#32. I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.
Johnny Depp
#33. Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.
Gilbert Hernandez
#34. Raising taxes is not a frivolous venture that you do on the editorial page of 'The New Republic,' for god sakes. It's something that you really have to think about and go through carefully.
Arthur Laffer
#35. For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
Carol Bellamy
#36. It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
Matt Groening
#37. I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
Gil Gerard
#38. You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
Billy Crystal
#39. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Brad Henry
#40. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#41. Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.
Denzel Washington
#42. I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#43. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#44. The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.
Saddam Hussein
#45. There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.
Mitt Romney
#46. I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.
Millard Fuller
#47. If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.
Frank Luntz
#48. You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?
Howie Carr
#49. Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
Gore Vidal
#50. Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one reason. Your motive should be an overwhelming love and compassion for those in need. There is no other legitimate motive for healing.
Praying Medic
#51. While everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#52. When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
Charles Kimbrough
#53. I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can.
Danny Meyer
#54. The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Paul Graham
#55. People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.
Jon Runyan
#56. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.
Quinn Cummings
#57. As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.
Hillary Clinton
#58. My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
Mark Frauenfelder
#59. If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'
Parvesh Cheena
#60. Is he seriously joking with me? The master of the dark art of raising the dead has become a standup comedian? Surely this is the end of the world.
David Estes
#61. Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#62. Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
Eric Braeden
#63. 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
#64. Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.
Eugene Jarecki
#65. There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.
Andy Andrews
#66. Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's
responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.
Stephen Colbert
#68. Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#69. At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.
Anna Maria Chavez
#70. We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.
Faith Hill
#71. You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
John Hoeven
#72. Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.
Elizabeth George
#73. Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.
Nigel Lawson
#74. Now, tell me which is the greater deed, raising a dead man or killing a giant?" "The answer is self-evident," responded Don Quixote. "It is greater to raise a dead man.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#75. I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street.
Bernie Sanders
#76. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.
Ron Baratono
#77. In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.
Tulsi Gabbard
#78. I am not convinced that either the position, rewards or achievements have been worth the cost. My personal and married life and child raising have surely suffered from the professional attainments I have achieved.
Joanne Simpson
#79. The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Bill Gates
#80. You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now.
Shirley Marr
#81. Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
Li Peng
#82. Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is ...
Carew Papritz
#83. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.
Chris Nicolaisen
#84. You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.
Benjamin Lotter
#85. When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.
Lynda Resnick
#86. You look beautiful. I'm so happy I finally agreed to go on this date with you." That makes me laugh. "Really? Were you being hounded relentlessly?" "Like you wouldn't believe," he says, raising his eyebrows. "It's been exhausting having to dodge your advances.
Claire Contreras
#87. There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
Uma Thurman
#88. Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#89. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.
Rick Scott
#91. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.
Monique Truong
#92. I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
Aamir Khan
#93. Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#94. Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
Nancy Pelosi
#95. A 'good' father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a 'good' father who is also a 'brave' father will let the children without cultivate the child within.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.
Michelle Malkin
#97. As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.
Kresley Cole
#98. I am beautiful, one with cosmos, life force, eternal abundance, joy, vitality, infinite consciousness.
Jay Woodman
#99. After saying the jobs bill is paid for, President Obama now says that it will be paid for by raising taxes over 10 years. I can't figure out if he's the kind of guy who makes infomercials, or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials.
Jay Leno
#100. She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
Tami Hoag
