#raise

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ↗

— John W. Foster

#hell #laugh #loudest #pride #raises

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#does #family #indeed #large #large family

We can all become activists and raise questions. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#become #questions #raise

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#cuba #havana #i #i was born #jersey

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#business #easily #know #matter #nasty

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#had #help #i #i was raised #moral

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#bravery #day #embodied #how #i

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#feels #mind #praise #reproof #unmerited