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Quotes About Raising

How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.
~ Lee Unkrich
One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.
~ Ed Rendell
Their decision to mainstream Leslie to a "normal" childhood was influenced by their confidence in Glen Ridge as a great place to raise a child. The Fabers knew that Glen Ridge wasn't paradise, but it was, they believed, an exceptionally safe and secure world for a child to explore, even a child who was impaired.
~ Bernard Lefkowitz
In tournaments, players typically raise when they enter the pot. In cash games, though, players are more likely to limp in before the flop. That's because cash games are usually deeper-stacked, meaning that players will have a higher ratio of chips in relation to the blinds than they would in a tournament.
~ Daniel Negreanu
I used to make it deep in poker tournaments without ever moving all-in because other players knew that when I raised it up, I had the goods.
~ Phil Hellmuth
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
~ William John Wills
I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
~ John Lennon
I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child
~ Angelina Jolie
the baby got born all right and left it in a safe place, where someone decent would find it—people who go to libraries are all smart, you know—civic-minded? People who read books are found to be more empathetic than those who don't. They have some idea, at least, of how to raise a kid.
~ Meg Cabot
There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.
~ bell hooks
I need the help of my nannies, but I don't want my children being raised in something that resembles a group home.
~ Nadya Suleman
He said he was raising his kids to believe in the will not the rules and that we would go to the Unitarian Church.
~ Susan Barnes
It's a mother's greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman's greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she's helped him become a man.
~ Susan May Warren
Now that … my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together. The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations. Thank you!
~ Forest Houtenschil
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
Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.
~ Kanye West
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
~ Marvin Harris
My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
~ Ian Dunbar
We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.
~ David Cohen
We are so fortunate that our new and existing investors share our vision of making Hyperloop the world's first new mode of transportation in over a century. We initially targeted $50 million and ended up raising $85 million instead.
~ Shervin Pishevar
There is one funding suggestion that should be part of any transportation discussion, but most people don't want to talk about it - raising the gas tax.
~ Michael Capuano
When your daughter has a little help, a lot of empowerment, and a foundational faith, worries don't have to carry the same power in her life. With God's help, I really believe you can raise a worry-free girl. As The Message paraphrase of Matthew 11:28–30 says,
~ Sissy Goff