(1501 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 converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork.”
William Shakespeare
“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.”
Nora Ephron
“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
“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see”
George Berkeley
“You can't climb to the second floor without a ladder. Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.”
Emil Zatopek
“When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.”
Will Rogers
“The government will fall that raises the price of beer.”
Czech Proverb