#raise

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#ear #find #give #i #i do

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#became #both #brother #farm #farmer

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#accorded #animal #been #brings #forth

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#books #children #desire #failure #fear

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#awareness #birth #brain #damaged #disability

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

#almost #angeles #aware #because #business

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Brown

#collect #direct #does #free-trade #government

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

I had an ear for languages, and I could read before I could adequately wash myself. I probably could have vied with Jeanette for the number one spot, but I'd seen what happened if you gave in to your natural aptitudes. This wasn't like the woods, where you had to be your fastest and your strongest and your bravest self. Different sorts of calculations were required to survive at the home. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home