Raised Quotes

I was raised on pop music.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

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

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

Libraries raised me.

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.