Quotes About Raising

#1. Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

Kevin Yoder

#2. There is nothing like raising a child in a home filled with love and respect ... to watch them blossom as an adult, filled with hopes and dreams and good intentions. Dedicated to our son, my coauthor, J.R. Matheson. We wish you all the best Justin! Love you.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#3. Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.

Harlan Coben

#4. The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

Henrik Fisker

#5. Raising PERFECT children is not hard ...
It's IMPOSSIBLE !!!!!

K.j. Force

#6. Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot

#7. I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

Attia Hosain

#8. Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.

Mary Blakely

#9. Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

Edvard Moser

#10. God's specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don't have the need that exceeds His power.

Beth Moore

#11. I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

Sheryl Crow

#12. Hear, hear," said the Dog, raising her head. "It's always better to be doing, Prince. Besides, you don't smell like a coward, so you can't be one.

Garth Nix

#13. Like piss," she hollered, shaking her head.
"There are some drawbacks," said Zamira, "to raising children among sailors. But then I myself am no doubt making the largest contribution to her vocabulary."
"Piiiisssss," yelled Cosetta, giggling and immensely pleased with herself.

Scott Lynch

#14. Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

Nicole Ari Parker

#15. Make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.

Randall Terry

#16. The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

Brian Baird

#18. I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.

Chuck Ragan

#19. Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

Carine Roitfeld

#20. I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

David R. Brower

#21. I don't care if the Koch brothers or Soros spend their money to promote one candidate or another. I care about members of Congress spending 30%-70% of their time raising money from .05% of us. Change the way we fund elections and you change the corruption.

Lawrence Lessig

#22. I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.

Stewart Rahr

#23. I suspect that the age of letters is waning, for our time. It is the age of Panama Canals, of Sandra Bernhardt, of Western wheat raising, of merely material expansion. Art, form, may return, but I doubt I shall live to see them
I don't believe they are as eternal as the poets say.

Henry James

#24. Emilio, shut the fuck up!" Carhart shouted at him, turning entirely to give his friend an incredulous look. "What's wrong with you?"
Emilio shrugged innocently, raising his eyebrows high. "I don't know how to take instructions slash am a bad person?

Santino Hassell

#25. It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party.

Kerry Healey

#26. Entering dark places and raising human beings to a new kind of life was Jesus' primary activity.

Jeff Cook

#27. In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.

Georgette Mosbacher

#28. One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

Gail Collins

#29. I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

Grace Kelly

#30. I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.

Tavoris Cloud

#31. I didn't endorse Donald Trump but I thanked him for coming, thanked him for raising issues that were important, thanked him for talking about immigration and considering the views that we had worked on for a number of years, on what a good immigration policy should be.

Jeff Sessions

#32. She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her

Elle Klass

#33. No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#34. Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

Leon M. Lederman

#35. It's like she thinks she did me a favor by raising me to believe that the entire world was out to get me, by making sure I never get my hopes up.

Rainbow Rowell

#36. As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Tom Colicchio

#37. I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

DeForest Kelley

#38. There goes a lot of pain in raising children. But the pain is equally or overtly compensated by the joy of parenthood.

Girdhar Joshi

#39. However, because the object raising events has a strong reference to each event listener, this can cause a memory leak when the lifetime of the object raising events exceeds what would be the lifetime of an event listener.

Anonymous

#40. People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Dalia Mogahed

#41. My headache was worse than ever. I groaned, raising my right hand to my temple, and the last of the comfortable darkness dissolved, leaving me inarguably awake. Damn. "Toby?

Seanan McGuire

#42. With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

Vanessa Lachey

#43. My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Daniel Kahneman

#44. I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.

Bruce Willis

#45. Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Paul Ryan

#46. Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.

Gore Verbinski

#47. Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

Marco Rubio

#48. When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

Haley Barbour

#49. I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.

Louis Susman

#50. A bonus in raising a child you don't have a biological tie to is you will never saddle them with watching their every move and declaring their musical talent as "that's from your dad's side".

Nia Vardalos

#51. I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.

Brandon Flowers

#52. For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

Michael Arad

#53. When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#54. I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

Tom Cole

#55. I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

Danica McKellar

#56. He didn't think about raising his assault weapon; it was just there, coughing out return fire like an extension of his will.

James S.A. Corey

#57. Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#58. I blame my parents. It's their fault for raising me with a little guilt-demon living in my stomach. I can't ever just do something without having to worry about whether it's right. Now, don't worry, I can usually overcome it.

Kevin Emerson

#59. A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

Bill Cosby

#60. Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and inhale the scent of his aftershave -something basic and male.

Tammara Webber

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

Brian Dennehy

#62. Stopped her by raising his hand. I don't want to argue with you, Sara. I know you feel differently. Suffice to say that this is how I see it.

Harlan Coben

#63. Parents and children help each other to grow. In raising their children, parents are also raising themselves. Child rearing gives parents the chance to redo their own childhood and to improve on it.

Alicia F. Lieberman

#64. Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.

Erma Bombeck

#65. Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or not a neighborhood is improving and its residents are living better.

Henry Cisneros

#66. Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Nancy Kress

#67. People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.

Ralph Nader

#68. We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

George Bernard Shaw

#69. Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children!

Brigham Young

#70. We rule out raising taxes this year.

Luis De Guindos

#71. We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

Anita Baker

#72. This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

#73. My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called 'our water planet,' then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I'm dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#74. In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

Arthur Henderson

#75. I wouldn't change it you know," he said, his breath raising goose bumps on the skin of my neck. "The girls, the other boys, everything we experienced before this moment. Because that was all wrong. And I think we needed to feel what was wrong to know what's right.

Megan Erickson

#76. Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

Jeremy Lin

#77. The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

John R. Rice

#78. Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.

Bob Beauprez

#79. The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team.

Stuart Law

#80. It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

George Barna

#81. As for opportunities, there is room for improved product quality and better service and raising our technology standard. In addition, we should have a certain share of the global market. However, we should consider new industries, such as resource development.

Liang Wengen

#82. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

Clive Barker

#83. Parenting is a marathon, and we have to remember our long-term goal of raising beautiful people who love God and others.

Kristen Welch

#84. The whole process of raising a family is one of perfecting our own lives. That which we transmit consciously and unconsciously to our children in their rearing in the home and in the community must be the best within us.

Henry D. Moyle

#85. And although there were countless single dads who were raising daughters, no one could deny that there were milestones that a girl wanted a mother for.

Lisa Kleypas

#86. We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.

Susan Maushart

#87. Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry ...

Ned Sublette

#88. It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

John Phillips

#89. Like Twitter, which faced much skepticism early on, Jelly has plenty of folks raising an eyebrow in its direction while trying to figure out what it's good for.

Anonymous

#90. My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time.

Kim Raver

#91. I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

Tionne Watkins

#92. You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Lowell Bergman

#93. Make lists. Write down the things that give you power. Write down the things that take your power away also. Make lists of people close to you. Are you associations raising you to a higher level of attention?

Frederick Lenz

#94. The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'

David Letterman

#95. I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Boris Becker

#96. Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

Hafez Ibrahim

#97. Schooling ain't life."
"Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Patrick Ness

#98. We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride makes all the difference between cattle-raising and a nation's good breeding.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#99. Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

Michael Greger

#100. All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

Laurence Sterne