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Quotes About Raising

You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.
~ Sam Brownback
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. —Gabriel García Márquez
~ Sara Donati
God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I only wish I had more time for fund raising.
~ Nido R Qubein
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
~ Will Rogers
You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
~ Matthew William Goode
I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
~ Essie Davis
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
~ Boris Kodjoe
Why do so many women drop out of the workforce at this age, in our late 30s, early 40s? Well, often it's because we're raising kids, so, let's be honest about that.
~ Marielle Heller
Like piss ," she hollered, shaking her head. "There are some drawbacks," said Zamira, "to raising children among sailors. But then I myself am no doubt making the largest contribution to her vocabulary." " Piiiisssss ," yelled Cosetta, giggling and immensely pleased with herself.
~ Scott Lynch
I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
~ Scott McClellan
I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.
~ Sheryl Crow
It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
All of our children are prey. How do we raise them not to prey upon themselves and each other? And this is why we cannot be silent, because our silences will come to testify against us out of the mouths of our children.
~ Audre Lorde
Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.
~ Stephen Colbert
To help them was tantamount to shaking one's fist at God. Raising their sights from the vulgar spectacle of things like public hangings could rock the boat of civil society and mustn't be attempted.
~ Eric Metaxas
I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
~ Zac Brown
I'm just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives.
~ Juicy J
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
~ Gloria Steinem
The shop enjoyed some success, particularly in raising the standard of sheep perms.
~ Shaun Tan
I might not seem like the type who could sit at an outdoor cafe drinking a latte, but I am. Why? No motion required. It's just sitting. Sitting and sipping. I can't imagine a neurosis that would prevent one from raising one's arm to one's mouth while holding a cup, though given time, I'm sure I could come up with one.
~ Steve Martin