Top 48 The Man Who Raised Me Quotes
#1. Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I
Robin Hobb
#2. The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
Vin Diesel
#3. I wanted to be alone with the One. The One who scaled then careened from the heights of the Mount. The One who raised up the man from the mud. The One who fashioned me from a part of the man and knew me more intimately than even the adam.
Tosca Lee
#4. Homo sentimentalis [ ... ] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.
Milan Kundera
#5. Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#6. Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.
Marc Anthony
#7. No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.
Louis L'Amour
#8. In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
Pope John Paul II
#9. Part of the reason I haven't found a man who appeals to me is because men aren't raised to be men anymore, in my opinion. Gone are the take-the-bull-by-the-horns, never-say-die men legends are made of.
C.P. Smith
#10. Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
Bennett Cerf
#11. When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
Ben Jonson
#12. I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.
Hugo Chavez
#13. I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.
Robert Jordan
#14. Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?'
'How did you ... ?'
'Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.
J.K. Rowling
#15. The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.
Thomas Hobbes
#16. The man tilted back his head, raised his eyebrows, cast his eyes to heaven, pouted his lips and said, "Tch!"
"That performance," said the chief, "is the Cypriot way of saying 'No'....
Peter Paris
#17. I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science ... it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.
Marie Curie
#18. Louisa raised an eyebrow. Is he - how shall I put it delicately - a simple man?
Heidi Cullinan
#19. When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
Ovid
#20. Standing in the corner of room with a glass raised to his lips was a young man. Impeccably and dramatically dressed in dark blue and gold he stood aloof from the crowd, watching the proceedings with little interest.
Claire Warner
#21. Look at me, Kate."
She raised her eyes to his.
"What do you see?"
She thought for a moment. "You've got a spot."
Charlie gave a snort of laughter. "You're not supposed to tell the fifth-sexiest man in UK, he's got a spot."
"Who voted? Senior citizens?
Barbara Elsborg
#22. The smooth, steady movement of my actions raised a sliver of panic in the rational man who was abandoning me.
Craig Johnson
#23. And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
Arthur Golden
#24. But my father, the man who was in my room and had turned on the light, he'd raised me. He'd tamed me with all the love that lived inside him.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me. Already your horn has been raised, and your wrath has been kindled, and your star has passed by, and your heart has become strong. [
Jesus to Judas]
Rodolphe Kasser
#26. Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.
Bernard Cornwell
#27. Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,
whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,
is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#28. 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
#29. Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?'
His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.
Courtney Milan
#30. I am a man of many talents." I grinned, arranged my plate on the raised surface. "And apparently some of them don't require nudity." "Har-har.
Chloe Neill
#31. I don't need another 'adversity builds character' speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where's your adversity?"
Darren raised a brow. "I'm looking at it.
Rachel E. Carter
#32. I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against ... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
Dennis Chavez
#33. I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
Donald Dunn
#34. My parents had raised me to not judge a person based off the color of their skin but by the composition of their character. A man was nothing if he wasn't true to his word and honorable.
Chelle Bliss
#35. A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
Alicia Machado
#36. That's a lovely piece," Kat said, pointing at a Louise XV armoire near the fireplace.
The man raised his eyebrows. "Did you come to steal it?"
"Darn it," Kat said with a snap of her fingers."I knew I should have brought my big purse.
Ally Carter
#37. I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever ... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.
Matthew Quick
#38. It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone De Beauvoir
#39. A woman so weak for a man that they lost sight of themselves and the strong woman they were raised to be.
Tanasia Thomas
#40. He raised his head and summoned his endurance to take him farther. His body was finished, but he remembered Yesugei telling him a man's will could carry him long after the weak flesh had given up.
Conn Iggulden
#41. We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.
Ron Paul
#42. Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
Boris Kodjoe
#43. I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Michael Moore
#44. I would not have raised you to be a great man. There is no peace for great men. I would have had you be a decent one. I would have given you the quiet strength to grow old with the woman you love. Now all I can give you is a chance.
Pierce Brown
#45. 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
#46. We have been raised to a height that is unattainable and unimaginable for a natural man.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#48. Blue said, "I told you she would start singing."
But the Gray Man just raised his eyebrows. "Weapons and poetry go hand in hand.
Maggie Stiefvater
