Quotes with raise

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  • Virgil I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bruce Cockburn I want to raise every voice
    At least I got to try
    Every time I think about it
    Water rises to my eyes
    Situation desperate
    Echoes of the victims cry
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    If I had a rocket launcher
    Some son of a bitch would die
    Stealing Fire (1984) If I Had a Rocket Launcher, Track 8
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Allan Carr I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Becky Stark I'll never stop a bullet but a bullet might stop me.
    I'll never drink the ocean but the ocean might drink me.
    And I'll never raise a portrait to a gentle man in blue
    And I'll never sing a love song for a love that isn't true. I love how the garden grows
    And I love the garden rose.
    Imagine Our Love Garden Rose
    Becky Stark
    American artist,  singer and entertainer
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  • Bill Flores I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Miguel de Cervantes If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • John Jay Chapman If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Antonio Porchia If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Brian Tracy If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Delinsky In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Ben Marcus It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ben Bernanke It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Francis Bacon It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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