Raises famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.
-- Andy Stanley -
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.
-- Augustus William Hare -
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
-- Ben Bernanke -
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses
-- Berl Katznelson -
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money
-- Beth Henley -
If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.
-- Booboo Stewart -
Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.
-- Brian Tracy -
Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.
-- Calista Flockhart -
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
-- Catherine McCormack -
Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.
-- Charles Churchill -
Raise your energy. You attract what you radiate.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
-- Corey Feldman -
Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up
-- Cyprian Norwid -
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
-- Daniel Seligman -
I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
-- Darren Criss -
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
-- David Rockefeller -
When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
-- Deb Caletti -
Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.
-- Derek Sivers -
When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?
-- Ding Ling -
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us
-- Earl Sweatshirt -
It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.
-- Frank Dobson -
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
-- Fred Wilson -
We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek -
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.
-- George Harrison -
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
-- George Jean Nathan -
If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.
-- George W. Bush -
Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.
-- Gustave de Beaumont -
Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.
-- Hans F. Sennholz -
High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
-- Helen Fisher -
When you get to the top, raise the top and climb some more.
-- Jack Hyles -
You think you are alone. Then you raise your eyes, and you are surrounded.
-- Jack Miles -
You have only one chance to raise your child.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.
-- James Randi -
It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.
-- Janice Kaplan -
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.
-- Jason Chaffetz -
I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.
-- Jethro Tull -
When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise.
-- Jim Bakker -
Concept is what makes actors raise their game.
-- Joe Dempsie -
If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.
-- John C. Maxwell -
Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
-- John Wanamaker -
We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.
-- Jose Clemente Orozco -
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
-- Joseph Glanvill -
My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.
-- Josh Groban -
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
-- Kate Smith -
I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
-- Kathryn Stockett -
Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.
-- Kelly LeBrock -
Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.
-- Ken Ham -
If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?
-- L. Tom Perry -
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
-- Leonard Mlodinow -
Raise children who do the right things for the right reasons.
-- Lisa Whelchel -
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
-- Lou Engle -
My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.
-- Ludacris -
There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.
-- Michael Jackson -
If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.
-- Michael Port -
Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.
-- Pink -
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
-- Quintilian -
If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
-- Rita Mae Brown -
When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.
-- Robert Greene -
To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.
-- Robin Crow -
Better we raise our skill than lower the climb
-- Royal Robbins -
Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
-- Ryan Phillippe -
If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
-- Seth Godin -
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,
-- Sharon Gless -
The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
-- Shulamith Firestone -
We can all become activists and raise questions.
-- Soleil Moon Frye -
All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.
-- Steven Wright -
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
-- Stokely Carmichael -
You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.
-- Tom Lehrer -
You can raise her up a lady but there’s one thing you just can't avoid...
-- Trace Adkins -
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
-- Walter F. Mondale -
Eventually, I'll build a ranch and raise horses.
-- Jeff Fahey -
When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
-- Jeremy Griffith -
No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property you have occupied if you can. In the end, that will be worth quite a bit of money.
-- Joe Mimran -
I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.
-- Joe Mimran -
I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.
-- Keith Teare -
My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.
-- Chris Pronger -
An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.
-- Russell D. Moore -
If you raise your gaze, you don't see the boundaries anymore.
-- Thomas Muller