Raise Quotes

I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.