#raise

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#choir #church #college #home #i

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#being #deny #generate #hoping #lose

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town. ↗

— Faith Hill

#best #family #fantastic #great #greatest

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

— Edmund Hillary

#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats. ↗

— Allan Houston

#african-american community #ago #basketball #community #especially

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#been #being #came #ended #eye

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax. ↗

— Tom Hunter

#fiscal responsibility #need #quite #raise #responsibility

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#attorney general #doubts #failure #fitness #general

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aesthetic #almost #always #architecture #aspect

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? ↗

— Elizabeth Janeway

#biology #connections #family #good #growing