#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

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#against #basic #catholics #church #clearly

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#cause #finger #having #hazard #lives

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#could #cross #did #effect #fact

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#child #could #course #daughter #everyone

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#god #i #i was raised #made #point

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#areas #balance #because #being #extent

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#felt #had #i #i am #i was raised

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#howl #i #long #rage #raised