
Top 91 Raised Right Quotes
#1. I was raised right - I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.
Kathy Griffin
#2. We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.
Bronagh Gallagher
#3. I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.
Ben Quayle
#4. I was raised right. I dig who I am.
Scott Caan
#5. One could say, that # Masons were raised right.
Mo Rocca
#6. One of the true tests to tell if a man's been raised right and is a gentleman is whether he stands when a lady enters the room - or
Lisa Shearin
#7. The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.
Abraham Foxman
#8. I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
Laura Osnes
#9. Hello little one. Did you know you're on private property?"
"Really? I had no idea." Meryn fudged.
He raised an eyebrow. "The ten foot fence right behind you didn't give it away?
Alanea Alder
#10. I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.
LeBron James
#11. Boy you got my heartbeat running away, beating like a drum and it's coming your way..can't you hear that boom, badoom,boom,boom, badoom, boom, bass, he got that super bass..
-(right eyebrow raised)-
>>>>>
Nicki Minaj
#12. Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now."
"That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.
Cassandra Clare
#13. When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Michelle Obama
#14. Father Lenar Hoyt stepped away from the wall where he had been leaning, raised his right hand with thumb and little finger touching, three fingers raised, the gesture somehow including himself as well as those before him, and said softly, 'Ego te absolvo.
Dan Simmons
#15. He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.
Lisa Unger
#16. Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
Trisha Yearwood
#17. My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.
Matt Bomer
#18. She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood.
And yet he was still here, with her.
"I'm fine," she said. "Go away.
Marissa Meyer
#19. All right, who prayed for the miracle?" he asked softly. Three guys raised their hands. "You're all promoted. Nice work.
Evan Currie
#20. But the warriors true, the brave of heart
Who valiently upheld the right
They are raised on high to the velvet sky
Bringing light to the darkness of night
Brian Jacques
#21. One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife and I'll get another husband!'
Leonard J. Arrington
#22. The Catholic influence just comes from being raised Catholic, going to church every Sunday, being confirmed, going to church on holy days. So it's coming from where I am. It serves the purpose of having people who have a base or foundation where they know what's right.
Craig Finn
#23. I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'
Christina Hendricks
#24. But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing.
Harvey Fierstein
#25. Never for a single moment have I believed that you are the murderer, the trembling voice suddenly burst from Alyosha's breast, and he raised his right hand as if calling on God to witness his words. Mitya's whole face instantly lit up with bliss.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. We have raised an issue that is already in the Bolivian constitution, that water is a universal human right. And we asked the United Nations to recognize water as a human right.
Evo Morales
#27. He said, "You need not go to a place to talk to God. He is here. Everywhere." He raised his hands up to the sky to emphasize his point. "Yes, you're right," she said,
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#28. All the men in the joint raised me up, told me what to do, what was right and wrong, told me when to sit down,
when to stand up, I just did whatever I was told.
Charles Manson
#29. I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.
George Clooney
#30. You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#31. Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?
I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates. And then slowly, beautifully, the right fist he's been banging against the wooden railing unfurls and is raised over his head, moving back and forth like a metronome.
Jodi Picoult
#32. Did you pack an extra gun?" "Of course," she said. "You can never have too many weapons." Jake smiled. "I raised you right.
Janet Evanovich
#33. Then we'll all go to the movies or go bowling. Something normal people do."
"Because we're so normal, right?"
He raised his hand high and let the first crack of his palm rain down on her ass. "This is our normal. It's the only normal that matters.
Alyssa Turner
#34. He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.
Mary Balogh
#35. I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.
Shannen Doherty
#36. Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.
Louis Sachar
#37. I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
Kaley Cuoco
#38. Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male in most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women.
Kate Bornstein
#39. I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
Sonia Sotomayor
#40. His eyebrow is raised again. I wonder if he practices these looks in the mirror. Each one seems perfectly crafted to make a girl want to drop her shorts right then and there.
Jen Frederick
#41. Not so sweet after all," Logan commented with a wink. "No?" Logan shook his head. "There's a hint of sweet with a full helping of stubborn and dirty as fuck." Tate raised a brow as if to say, 'And?' "In other words, just right.
Ella Frank
#42. I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes ...
Keith Ellison
#43. Eriko raised me that way," he said, laughing. "If I didn't open the door for her, she'd get mad and refuse to get in the car."
"Even though she was a man!" I said, laughing.
"Right, right, even though she was a man.
Banana Yoshimoto
#44. I don't know, I don't feel right unless I've got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
Haruki Murakami
#45. Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.
Nicholas Kristof
#46. I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.
Bristol Palin
#47. I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".
Gena Showalter
#48. Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.
Daniel H. Wilson
#49. I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.
Larry The Cable Guy
#50. It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.
Kathleen Hanna
#51. You have no right to tell me-"
"You do not want to finish that sentence, missy. You want to sit down, close your mouth, and eat."
"How am I supposed to eat with my mouth closed?
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#52. My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
Deepika Padukone
#53. I eyed the spirit. "You know the name 'Alfred' is a joke, right?" It stared at me. A wind that didn't exist stirred the hem of its cloak. I raised my hands in surrender and said, "All right. I guess you need a first name, too. Alfred Demonreach it is.
Jim Butcher
#54. I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?
Rene Russo
#55. He raised his right hand and with a papal cross he blessed the beach from the high terrace.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#56. And my mother always knew that, hence her Nikon raised high and pointed right into the mirror. She sensed that by documenting her own body, she was preserving her history. Beautifully. Nakedly. Imperfectly. Her private experiment made way for my public one.
Lena Dunham
#57. The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it's exhausting to get them out in the right order." He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she'd heard one. She raised an eyebrow.
Merrie Haskell
#58. She already told me that she doesn't have to be nice, so why do I? Because my mother raised me right? That's why wolves always win. Because the rest of us mind our manners and get devoured for our efforts.
Sheryl J. Anderson
#59. When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
Patricia Ireland
#60. Did you see her?" I said. He raised his eyebrows. "The real me." "She's right here," he said, and kissed me.
Leah Raeder
#61. I did not matter what distant iron city had raised him. He had been made by Sorry-in-the-Vale, his bones as much a part of it as the valley and the woods. It was as if she had the whole town spread underneath her. Or the whole world, since right then he was the only part of it that mattered.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#62. You don't believe in right and wrong? Good and bad?"
"Sure, right is what's good for me, and bad is what I don't like, and those things are very, very wrong ."
"You really were raised by wolves, weren't you?"
"Yes, I was.
Michael J. Sullivan
#63. I say we cut a path right down the fucking middle and kill anything that moves," I growled.
Ristan raised a brow and whistled. "Damn , Flower. That almost made me hard. Shock me with that blood thirsty little inner vixen.
Amelia Hutchins
#64. Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise
Richard Louv
#65. My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act.
Torill Kove
#66. MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.
Charles Portis
#67. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.
Don DeLillo
#68. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. ROMANS 10:9-10
Francine Rivers
#69. I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.
Grace Meng
#70. And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a rumble of thunder. Lightning arced across the stage. A small group of hairy men with helmets sat looking very pleased with themselves, and raised their glasses to him.
Douglas Adams
#71. So ... this business trip of yours?"
"What about it?"
"Are you and Coop sharing a room?"
She raised her eyebrows, then said, "Right back at you, Cowboy."
"Liz and I are just friends."
"Uh-huh. I hope your shots are up-to-date."
"Meow.
Stephanie Bond
#72. I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.
Richard Leakey
#73. On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales raised his right hand, swore to tell the truth, and then everybody had a good laugh and went back to what they were doing.
Jay Leno
#74. And I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I was in the right place-okay," I amended when he raised his eyebrows. "The wrong place at the right time." More head shaking.
Myra McEntire
#75. I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
Scott Stapp
#76. I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.
Donna Leon
#77. What was that about?" he asked his voice deep with a bitter distain.
I raised an eyebrow at him, "What was what about?"
"All that, 'Are-you-okay?' and 'Do-you-want-to-talk-about-it?' crap."
"I was being nice. You know, that thing you being the total opposite of right now.
Sara Massa
#78. This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt."
"No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?
Amanda Hocking
#79. Wharick, on the other hand, remained there with his eyebrows raised slightly as he waited for her to complain about his behavior. "You have no right, Wharick," she said sternly. And there it is, he thought feeling more than pleased that he knew her better than she thought.
Madison Thorne Grey
#80. West Bank women's groups argued that the time wasn't right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before questions of women's rights could be raised. The
Geraldine Brooks
#81. I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
Spalding Gray
#82. Cam backed toward the door, arms still raised. He tapped the top of the door frame. "Guess what?"
"What?"
A slight grinned appeared. "My bedroom is right across the hall."
My tummy tumbled. "Okay."
The grin spread, turning wicked. "Just thought you'd be happy to hear that.
J. Lynn
#83. I don't believe in a god, not in the traditional sense anyway. I guess that's what being raised Catholic has done to me. But I do believe in energy. I do believe in right and wrong. I do believe in kindness and truth.
R.B. O'Brien
#84. Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
Pierre Curie
#85. Kane raised an eyebrow so I said, "Skull... he was me Mr. Almost, but you? You're what I like to call me Mr. Pain In The Arse and that translates to me Mr. Right.
L.A. Casey
#86. So, if you think I'm arrogant? Selfish? Spoiled? You're probably right. But don't hold it against me. It's not my fault. I am a product of how I was raised.
Emma Chase
#87. Scars crisscross her body. The left breast is normal flawless skin. The right breast and flowing down to her left thigh is a raised angry red and puckered scar. Her scars and flawless skin are constant reminders, of what was, and what she fears will never be.
Aden Lewis
#88. The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.
Honore De Balzac
#89. The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.
Keith O'Brien
#91. I want to fuck you right here, teacup." "The engraved invitation's in the mail." I raised my leg over his waist and he tucked his hand behind my knee. "It says, 'Your dick is cordially invited to come inside.'" He
C.D. Reiss
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