Raises Quotes - Page 5

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.

Wally Schirra

Fathers Day, Dad, Hero

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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

Robert Fulghum

Weed, Opportunity, Garden

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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Andrew Jackson Downing

Country, Men, Garden

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The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

Henny Youngman

Sports, Mean, Giving

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Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Airplane

Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Perseverance, Courage, Wind

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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

Milton Friedman

Order, Law, Alcohol

Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

P. G. Wodehouse

Grief, Golf, Games

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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Charles Darwin

Regret, Men, Emotional

Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.332

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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Marquis de Sade

Hope, Old Wounds, Soul

Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

Mason Cooley

Girl, Mom, Daughter

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If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

Antonio Porchia

Eye, Positivity, Thinking

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To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

Zig Ziglar

Positive, Children, Kids

Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

Al McGuire

Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

Francis Bacon

Real, Mean, Eye

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You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.

Therese of Lisieux

Angel, Giving, Bread

St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

Flower, Roots, Evil

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No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Archibald Alexander Hodge

Men, Aspiration, Aim

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Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uplifting, Memorial Day, Children

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.521, Harvard University Press

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Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

Joshua Chamberlain

Memorial Day, Hero, Heart

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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

Frederic Bastiat

Spring, Ideas, Libertarian Party

Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

Jesse Jackson

Motivational, Children, Night

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All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

Paul Cezanne

Art, Men, Wish

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You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.

Flower A. Newhouse

Inspiring, Lonely, Angel

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I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.

Barack Obama

Mother, Believe, Raises Questions

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