Top 1200 Raise Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. She wants $12 an hour. I voted against the War in Iraq. She voted for the War in Iraq. I believe we should ban fracking. She does not. I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not her position.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

North Jersey is one of the best places on earth. I love living there. I want to raise my kids there. It's my favorite state in the country.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

I did once talk non-stop for 12 and a half hours, but it was to raise money for a worthwhile charity. At least, that's my excuse.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

She appears to have a face that would stop a clock and raise hell with small watches, bless her heart.

I'm a single parent, a working mother, an executive, and an author. My greatest accomplishment will be to raise three wonderful children.

I can slip a punch, not by three inches, but by a centimetre. Just have it brush past me. And raise an eyebrow at the same time.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.

Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.

I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?

We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

I find my ideas in a number of places - tips, lawsuits, other news stories that raise interesting questions.

Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.

I was born after my dad came back from England and he wanted to raise us like European kids.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to raise the children.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

I wanted to take advantage of my platform as an NBA player to bring smiles, and also to raise money for social causes.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

As we raise ourselves in the spiritual consciousness, we are better able to solve the problems of life. We are happy. We are at home in every environment.

I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.

I have the comedic chops and intelligence to raise points and discuss both sides of whatever is on our mind as a society.

Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son, that one day he takes a banner, the banner of Jesus Christ, and he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed a banner before, and he cries out, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' even if it costs my son his life.

I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than they were raised with.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.