| "One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself." »Sigmund Freud |
| "You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes." »Walter Schirra, Sr. |
| "How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children" »Lewis B. Frumkes |
| "It takes a village to raise a child." »African Proverb |
| "Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." »Anonymous |
| "A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily." »Dan Seligman |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected." »Robert Orben |
| "Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there." »Norman Vincent Peale |
| "If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." »Anonymous |
| "Don't lay any certain plans for the future it is like planting toads and expecting to raise toadstools." »John Billings |
| "Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old." »George Fabricius |
| "For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn" »George Gordon Byron |
| "There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living." »John Henry Newman |
| "Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." »Leigh Hunt |
| "There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it." »Andrew Schneider |
| "When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped." »Marcel Archard |
| "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover." »Joseph Addison |
| "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." »Adam Smith |
| "We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked." »Charles Eddie Wiseman |
| "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 |
| "Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles." »Dorothy DeBolt |
| "If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings." »Brian Tracy |
| "He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure." »Johann von Goethe |
| "The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein |
| "Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD" »Tommy Boy |
| "Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." »Isaiah 5812 Bible |
| "Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." »Lewis Thomas |
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