(1510 quotes found)
“Stand up. Raise your arms. Repeat after me: I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!”
W. Clement Stone
“I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.”
Virgil
“On its surface, raising the minimum wage symbolizes the little guy. We represent another little guy in this picture, the small businesses on Main Street. They are going to have to deal with this.”
Jot Condie
“If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted.”
W. H. Auden
“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 Garcia Marquez
“This is what the department was supposed to be all about. Instead, it obviously raises very serious, troubling questions about whether the government would be prepared if this were a terrorist attack. It's a devastating indictment of this department's performance four years after 9/11.”
Clark Kent Ervin
“I pledged to the U.N. that I'm going to try and raise additional funds from other sources as well, to get other wealthy individuals to contribute, because there's no reason why we can't raise lots of money... The world is just awash in money right because of the markets,”
Ted Turner
“You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“[Tyson finally struck back when an older boy tried to steal one of the pigeons he was raising.] I don't know what possessed me to fight, but it was my first fight and I kicked the living crap out of him, ... When I started hitting him, I was loving it. I let so much frustration out.”
Mike Tyson
“I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.”
Connie Stevens