Raise Quotes

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. (Norman Mailer)
If you do not raise your eyes, you will think you are the highest point. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected. View quote
Robert Orben
I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. View quote
Michael Pollan
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. View quote
Thomas Malthus
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. View quote
Joseph Addison
What passions cannot music raise or quell? View quote
John Dryden
My sun sets to raise again. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. (Gloria Steinem)
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand. View quote
Emo Philips
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. View quote
John Steinbeck
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. View quote
Clara Zetkin
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. (Sania Mirza)
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. View quote
Georg Büchner
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
Read my little fable He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson