(1510 quotes found)
“You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.”
Walter M. Schirra Sr.
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck -- and, of course, courage.”
Bill Cosby
“In converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork.”
William Shakespeare
“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
John Ruskin
“Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV”
Dan Castellaneta
“The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.”
Will Durant
“Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing up”
Wendy Cope
“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see”
George Berkeley