Raised Quotes

• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Struggle, Church, One Day

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• Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

  John Wesley

  Persistence, Men, Devil

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.86, Oxford University Press

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• We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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• My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me

  Diego Maradona

  Mother, Believe, Thinking

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• I was raised right. I dig who I am.

  Scott Caan

  Who I Am

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• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  Quincy Jones

  Thug, Color, Car

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Eyebrows, Raised Eyebrows, Left

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• I was raised by a single mother.

  Josh Peck

  Mother, Single Mother

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• My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

  Al Pacino

  Mother, Dad, War

  "New Again: AL Pacino". Interview with Julian Schnabel and Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

  Kamala Harris

  Independent, Independent Women, Victim

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• I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Stupid, Immature

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• I was raised to pretend.

  Anne Heche

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Book, Writing

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• Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

  Joseph Barbera

  Children, Character, Parent

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

  Russ Carnahan

  Years, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

  Suge Knight

  Kids, Want, Wells

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• I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

  Desmond Dekker

  School, Boys, Born

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

  Theodor Adorno

  Birthday, Being Yourself, Inspire

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• My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Children, Father

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Political, Target, Politics

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.95

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