#raised

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#family #given #good #how #know

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#come #damned #discouraged #encouraged #important

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. ↗

— Steve Martin

#also #because #casual #childhood #circumstances

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself. ↗

— Steve Martin

#andy #bedroom #day #friend #had

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want. ↗

— Martina McBride

#anyone #better #big #else #get

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#american people #american taxpayers #democrats #fight #force

At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#above #beasts #been #certain #city

Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#average #average american #before #children #father

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no. ↗

— John Cusack

#enough #i #i was raised #old #old enough

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#brought #child #fled #i #loved