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Quotes About Raised

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
~ Lev Grossman
There had been raised eyebrows at these arrangements from the rather strait-laced Islers, which the four principals had handled by firmly overlooking them.
~ Fritz Leiber
And Paris! All afternoon in someone's attic We raised our glasses And drank to the asses Who ran the world and turned neurotic.
~ Galway Kinnell
I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.
~ Jessica Stroup
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect.
~ Nina Garcia
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
~ Krist Novoselic
As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.
~ Jay Samit
It's a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it." Like a stage?" Evanlyn suggested. "Maybe they're planning to put on a play?" Or an execution," Horace said.
~ John Flanagan
You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.' 'Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.' 'Or an execution,' Horace said.
~ John Flanagan
bean raised in Kona nearby on the big Island of Hawaii.
~ John J. Gobbell
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves.
~ Elizabeth (I)
The Daoine Sidhe ride at down; I cannot stay them longer. There will be power raised that dawn, and all are loath to miss it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He raised his hands and froze there, still as an oil painting, poised like a man shielding his face from divine light.
~ Elizabeth Bear
David had been angry with the Church, the King, himself, the tissues of lies that he'd been raised on. But not with Sebastien, not except briefly and at first, when Sebastien had taught him that the desires David had been raised to consider anathema were not merely a matter of unconfessable groping in filthy alleys, of lewdness and whoring.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The Academy's most famous dropout was raised in Macedonia, the Texas of ancient Greece.
~ Arthur Herman
Scholars tell us that "Zion" is derived from tzun, which means "a monument raised up." Such indeed is the church of God: a monument of grace now, and of glory hereafter; raised up to all eternity.
~ Arthur W. Pink
I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
~ Jakob Dylan
When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.
~ Trisha Yearwood
Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. —1 Corinthians 15:43
~ Gary Chapman
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.
~ Shelby Lynne
Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.
~ Susanna Moore
I don't look at my instrument as having one specific role; I was raised to go as far as you can. But Raphael Saadiq hated my bass. He told me to throw it away. And playing in Snoop's band, there was a time when my bass was more annoying to everyone than helpful. They would get on my case: 'Can you make your bass sound like more of a bass?'
~ Thundercat
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