Top 444 Raise Quotes

To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
I am not only overwhelmed with excitement to be back in the seat but also to show my support to help raise awareness to end domestic violence and sexual assault by displaying the ‘No More’ symbol as I pilot the No. 24 car.
Amber Cope
Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village – or to take down an injustice.
Craig Kielburger
When I’m, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.
Kylie Jenner
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.
Anne Lamott
Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
People work for a living. They got families to raise. Their lives are tough.
Ann Richards
Educate yourself. Understand what you’re dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It’ll help you cope. It’ll help your child.
Boomer Esiason
I’m doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
Karen Salmansohn
For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn’t give them the right to discriminate.
Scott Fujita
If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.
Satya Nadella
They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I’d always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.
Mark Ruffalo
Just because you’re struggling with self-discipline doesn’t mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you’ll stick to your healthier habits – even when you don’t feel like it.
Amy Morin
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
Akhmad Kadyrov
The man who didn’t want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Earl Wilson
I want to live forever, and I know I won’t. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
Kevin Costner
To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
Matthew McConaughey
Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
Paul O’Neill
When big teams play each other, you automatically want to raise your game. You want to see what level you’re at, and you know you have to step up.
Edgar Davids
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
Martha Beck
What conflicting ideas that we love and embrace these women, and entrust them to raise our children and to feed us and to bathe us, but we keep something as silly as a bathroom separate.
Kathryn Stockett
Because women are more than the people who raise our children, they are fantastic leaders in their own rights in our community, and we want to give them the same safe environment, as we would expect.
Adam Goodes
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one’s own and helping to raise that of others.
Henry Rollins
I’m having a lot of fun, enjoying my life and trying to raise my children.
Harry Connick, Jr.
The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.
Karen Mills
Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.
Shawn Achor
You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek
If you’re the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
Kristin Hersh
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
Bobby Scott
I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.
Jon Oringer
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work – what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
Ray Dalio
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
George W. Bush
A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, ‘How am I supposed to raise my child?’ Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
Clyde Edgerton
The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
Serge Schmemann
I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.
Howlin’ Wolf
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more.
Mike Weir
I believe with great fortunes come great responsibility, so with our family’s assets and many wealthy friends, we could help raise a lot of money to help others.
Eric Trump
I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
Richard Lugar
I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.
Tom Paulin
You don’t have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.
Nick Woodman
When the time comes to raise rates, I do think there will be some benefits that flow through to savers.
Janet Yellen
I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
Darren Criss
It’s hard to make a film in Britain. It’s hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
James Nesbitt
I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 beca

I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn’t work until they are 70.
Bill Flores
Here’s what I see all across this great city – people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.
Thomas Menino
To have a baby, raise him and educate him, is something very valuable. But we, as a society, don’t see it that way.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
Mena Suvari
It’s an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel – it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.
Michael Trucco
There’s no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower… The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.
Grover Norquist
I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
Garth Brooks
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.
Rick Renzi
I am very aware of how warmly Scotland is regarded around the world, and a vote for self-determination would raise our international profile even further, with lots of benefits for Scottish arts and culture.
Ken Stott
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
Helen Fisher
I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I’d think ‘in the time that I don’t spend writing, I could raise a family of five.’ In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
Godfrey Reggio
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I’d like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I’ll get to do just that.
Catherine McCormack
My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.
Dolly Parton
With today’s mass media obsession, it’s good to be able to raise awareness about our environment.
Robin McLeavy
I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I’d marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn’t raised to set the world on fire.
Dani Shapiro
Yes, it’s hard to stay in shape, but it’s also hard to raise kids. That doesn’t mean you get to drop them off at your local fire station when they get to be a handful.
John Ridley