Raised Quotes - Page 7

• I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel.

  Katy Perry

  Atmosphere, Watches, News

  Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 26, 2013.

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• In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Michigan, Toilets

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• My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Michelle Pfeiffer - What She Did for Love". Interview with Liz Smith, www.goodhousekeeping.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

  Jodi Picoult

  Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

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• My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

  Pink

  Badass, Dad, Bad Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Kids, Grandfather, Would Be

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

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• 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

  School, Army, College

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• It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

  Colin Powell

  Nice, Partisans, Nations

  "White House Unveils Health Care Plan Amid Republican Resistance" by Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.

  Norman Reedus

  Trying, Eating, Protein

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• Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

  Jason Reitman

  Two, Wife, Vancouver

  "Jason Reitman Takes Off with Up in the Air". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 24, 2010.

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• I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

  Roy Rogers

  Ohio, Agriculture, Littles

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• When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, California, Oklahoma

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• I tell people all the time that I was born and raised in Ronald Reagan's America.

  Marco Rubio

  America, People, Born

  "Rubio Doesn't Shut Down Vice Presidential Chatter" by Lee Ross, www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I was raised all over. Kansas, Hawaii, Georgia, Texas and Kentucky, by the time I was 11.

  Jeri Ryan

  Kentucky, Texas, Kansas

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• What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

  Jonathan Sacks

  War, Government, Events

  "Teach Your Children Well for a Better Life" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised.

  Adam Sandler

  Children, Way, Spoiled

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• I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Home, Iran, Years

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• Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Gay, America

  "Gay Marriage: The Dan Savage Interview". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2006.

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• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Loyalty, Truth, Science

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• I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

  Curt Schilling

  Differences, Knows

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Hands, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Cutting, Government, President

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

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• I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

  Steven Seagal

  Childhood, Hardship, Way

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mother, Children, Reality

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

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