Raised Quotes
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As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.
John Locke
Nazareth
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I basically raised myself.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I was told I wasn't black enough for certain jobs because of the way I speak and carry myself and because I was raised in Europe. It's why I left L.A.
Reg E. Cathey
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Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.
Andrea Mitchell
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I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
Stephen Sondheim
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I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
Saul Rubinek
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My mother raised me to open the car door, open the door; if you take a woman out, you should pick up the check, and blah blah blah - whatever.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
Drew Carey
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There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.
Stephen Karam
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When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me and supported me when I came to the U.S.
Sonita Alizadeh
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Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.
Lao Tzu
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I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.
Anne Hathaway
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We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
Thomas Sowell
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I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.
Ariana Grande
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We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
Sandy Duncan
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I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.
Ralph Stanley
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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
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Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore.
J. R. R. Tolkien
