Raised Quotes

I was born and raised Catholic.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.