Quotes with raising

  • My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.
  • Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
  • Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
  • You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
  • Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.
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  • St. John Chrysostom Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Arthur Laffer And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ernest Bramah He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
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  • Erma Bombeck I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ''Checkout Time is 18 years.''
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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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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  • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Agnes E. Meyer It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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  • Brad Henry It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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