Raising Quotes - page 14

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone. (Gioconda Belli)
One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits. View quote
Gail Collins
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families. View quote
Gary Bauer
Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before. View quote
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it? View quote
Howie Carr
There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes. View quote
Haley Barbour
For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily. View quote
Irwin Winkler
Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me. View quote
Isaiah Mustafa
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies. View quote
Iyanla Vanzant
Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. View quote
Jan Schakowsky
When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble. (Jeffrey Kluger)
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice. View quote
Jennie Garth
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs. View quote
Jim Jordan
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. View quote
Jim Ryun
Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. View quote
John H. Sununu
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes. View quote
John Hoeven
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. View quote
Jacob Lew
The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues. View quote
John Redwood
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. View quote
Joseph Hume
I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange. (Joseph Monninger)
Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents. View quote
Joseph P. Kennedy III
Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side. View quote
Juan Pablo Galavis
The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama? View quote
Juan Williams
It's hard to think of anything that is more socially beneficial than raising children well. It needs to be valued and respected, I believe by everyone in public life regardless of your political party. View quote
Kerry Healey