#raise

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#ever #fist #i #life #my life

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#carriers #confines #culture #every #his

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#dangerous #dent #economy #effective #ever

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. ↗

— John Boehner

#best #children #dad #flourish #mom

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#angle #creative #imagination #marks #new

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#came #confirmed #dallas #episcopalian #got

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#between #bring #campaign #egypt #elected

I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it! ↗

— Sophia Bush

#club #doing #everybody #five #hang

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bad #feet #get #glass #jig