Top 1200 Raising A Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me.

While raising my children, I would like to take on other challenges.

The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

I've day-dreamed about raising that Lombardi Trophy. I can see it in my mind.

I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

When you have a family as big as mine, there are many things that affect my family members, in many different ways. It could be high blood pressure, it could be cholesterol, it could be obesity, it could be sleep deprivation or sleep apnea. An illness is an illness, especially if it affects younger kids. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy, just as my family members want me to be healthy.

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

I'm much more interested in raising revenues for businesses than for the government.

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs.

I have a pretty close family and there are certain similarities - maybe a lot of families have this - where geographically, we're separated, so there are times when one family member will be needing a lot at one particular moment, so everyone rallies around that particular family member. Then there are other moments where, if [the family is] okay, I might not talk to my brother for two or three weeks, but then if I get him on the phone at five in the afternoon, it feels like we spoke that morning.

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

I don't think I've ever signed onto anything as quickly as I did The Hollars, because I come from a really loving, well-connected family, where we see each other all the time. And when I was done with this script, I was like, "Oh my god, that's my family!" This is obviously a very dysfunctional family, but there was something about it that was sort of universal. And I think that in this day and age in today's world - there's a lot of drama out there. It's nice to tell stories about things as simple and powerful as family.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.

More women are working because they have to, that's what it takes to put the food on the table and pay the rent. And yet we have not changed our policies to support the family. The right wing goes to the floor, and they did when they were in power, and talk about family values. Well, where are they? Family values is support for child care. Family values is equal pay for equal work so that women are paid appropriately.

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister for 15 years…I come from a big family not in terms of money, but reputation and grew up in a protective mountain environment…My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, ‘If you slap me I will slap you back’. I felt raising your hand on anybody is inappropriate and always had a high regard for my self. My dad asked me to leave the house and I did so without a single penny in my pocket.

Raising children is not easy, and what works for one child may not work for the other.

I tell people I live in Atlanta. Georgia's outside of Atlanta, absolutely. But my family's from the very rural south. My family's from Tuskegee, Alabama. And they're from Eatonton, Georgia. Places like Greenwood, Georgia, my family is from... so I've seen it both ways.

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

My daily life is mostly spent with my three kids and raising them.

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

So I saved your life, and you repaid me by raising Kronos. That's fair.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

Blood is thicker than water, but family isn’t just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don’t have those things, I don’t care what the blood says. You’re not family.

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself.

I didn't always handle the stress of raising my kids on little money well.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

The toughest thing about raising kids is convincing them that you have seniority.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.

My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

If ever there were a case for raising taxes on the wealthy, it's Andrew Bynum.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.