Quotes About Raising Yourself

#1. 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

#2. Perhaps the whole of life is a continuous
interconnecting of miracle,
but we don't always realise it.

Paul Morris Segal

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

Matt Groening

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Brad Henry

#12. You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#13. Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Denzel Washington

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.

Ron Funches

#17. When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Donna Quesada

#18. Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

Rajneesh

#19. If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.

Ronda Rousey

#20. What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Jonathan Franzen

#21. We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

Twiggy

#22. Alzheimer's is a family disease ... It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers ... Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself.

Seth Rogen

#23. When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary.

Connie Schultz

#24. It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one.

Anthony McDonald

#25. Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#26. Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

Glennon Melton

#27. Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and moving you to answer them for yourself.

Barbara Kingsolver

#28. The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

Ashwin Sanghi

#29. 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

#30. The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#31. Cutting benefits & raising retirement age are wrong answers.

Barack Obama

#32. 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

#33. Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

Paula Cole

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

Christiana Figueres

#44. 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

#45. Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

Candace Cameron

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

Hillary Clinton

#49. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

David Rockefeller

#50. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot

#51. 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

#52. [Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.

Shannon Woodward

#53. 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

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

Humphrey Bogart

#55. 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

#56. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

Jan Blaustone