Raised Quotes

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.

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.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.

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.

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.