Raised Quotes (261 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Kurt Braunohler
„For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.“
― Kurt Braunohler ―
Picture of quotation author Lois Lowry
„One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.“
― Lois Lowry ―
Picture of quotation author Miranda Lambert
„I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.“
― Miranda Lambert ―
Picture of quotation author Victor Webster
„I was raised doing martial arts.“
― Victor Webster ―
Picture of quotation author Lisa Loeb
„I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.“
― Lisa Loeb ―
Picture of quotation author Ana Ortiz
„I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.“
― Ana Ortiz ―
Picture of quotation author Josh Gad
„There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'“
― Josh Gad ―
Picture of quotation author Martin Rees
„Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people raised in a faith-based culture will stick with their religion and be lost to science.“
― Martin Rees ―
Picture of quotation author Colin Powell
„I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.“
― Colin Powell ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Helprin
„I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.“
― Mark Helprin ―
Picture of quotation author Joan Baez
„We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.“
― Joan Baez ―
Picture of quotation author Bob Corker
„The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.“
― Bob Corker ―
Picture of quotation author Shemar Moore
„I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.“
― Shemar Moore ―
Picture of quotation author Saint Patrick
„Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.“
― Saint Patrick ―
Picture of quotation author Lee Trevino
„I don't know of any other organization that's raised more money than golf has, because if you are a baseball player, you're a football player, you're a hockey player, if you're just a businessman, and you want to raise some money for a charity, what do they do? They have a golf tournament. They have a golf outing, and they go out and they do it.“
― Lee Trevino ―
Picture of quotation author Kate Clinton
„I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.“
― Kate Clinton ―
Picture of quotation author Goldie Hawn
„I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.“
― Goldie Hawn ―
Picture of quotation author Larry Elder
„Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.“
― Larry Elder ―
Picture of quotation author Jessica Stroup
„I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.“
― Jessica Stroup ―
Picture of quotation author Steven Yeun
„I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.“
― Steven Yeun ―

Popular topics

More topics

Popular Authors

More authors