Raised Quotes - Page 40

• Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Humor, Enemy

  Laurence Sterne (1847). “Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C”, p.29

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• I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

  Jimmy Connors

  Two, Ems, Way

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Parent, Trying

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• I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

  Joe Namath

  Children, Thinking, Should Have

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• I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

  John McAfee

  America, Would Be, Want

  "John McAfee uses live broadcast to reaffirm desire to return to US" by Amanda Holpuch, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

  Mary Wigman

  Art, Communication, Men

  Mary Wigman, Virginia Stewart (1935). “Modern dance”

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• Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, Should Have, Cities

  "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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• I was raised in the church.

  Kenny Rogers

  Church

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• Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

  Bill Cosby

  Wise, Our Generation, Generations

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• John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Funny, Humorous, Party

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• The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Baby, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mother, Strong, Nice

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• I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

  Kitty Kelley

  Girl, School, Names

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• I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

  Richard Ford

  Opportunity, Play, Guilty

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• I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

  Joe Queenan

  Christian, Jesus, Sunday

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• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  Daniel Dennett

  Children, Islands, Empathy

  "Daniel Dennett: 'I don't like theory of mind". Interview with Carole Jahme, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

  Alan Lightman

  Emotional, Law, Issues

  "Reviewing Mr g: Physicist-turned-novelist Alan Lightman meets God at the intersection of science and religion". Interview with Greg Quill, www.thestar.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

  Lena Horne

  People, Consciousness, Persons

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• I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

  Boris Becker

  Children, My Children

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• The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

  Greil Marcus

  People, Risk, Different

  Greil Marcus (2013). “The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years”, p.56, PublicAffairs

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• I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Jobs, Pay, Nine

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• The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.

  Jay Baruchel

  Dad, Fighting, Hockey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

  Cheryl James

  Hands, Sexually, Audience

  "New Again: Salt-N-Pepa". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini and Mary Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2014.

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• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Girl, Blood, London

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

  Annie Baker

  Mother, Kitchen, Sitting

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