R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich; else you will live rich but die poor.”
“Raise your daughter so she is not a damsel in distress. Raise her so she can be the one saving herself. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA”
“Raise your energy. You attract what you radiate.”
“Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.”
“Raise your hand if you had no idea you’d see so much nudity in one week of jury duty.” Twelve hands flew straight into the air. And unbelievably, Payton laughed.”
Source: Practice Makes Perfect
“Raise your hand if you've asked yourself, How much more do I have to do before I've done enough? How much of myself do I have to give? How smoothly do I have to polish myself before I can move through the world without friction?”
Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
“Raise your hand if your calendar ever makes you feel the need for an oxygen mask!”
Source: The Bombshell Business Woman: How to Become a Bold, Brave Female Entrepreneur
“Raise your hand if you’ve spent nights crying yourself to sleep, raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather hide in bed all day than face the people that make you feel small or powerless! Raise your hand if you’ve felt as if you’d rather lie to people than tell them the truth about who you really are, because at least you wouldn’t be the victim of hateful behavior or prejudice! And raise your hand if lying feels almost as bad.”
“Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
“Raise your head now or your children will live with their heads down for the rest of their life.”
Source: Monk Meets World
“Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart -
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Raise your heart, not your hand.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Raise your heart not your hand,
That is the only human way.
If you are forced to raise your hand,
Raise it only to shield, not to slay.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Raise your kids and grand-kids not as strong men or strong women, not as good Christians, Jews, or Muslims, not as responsible Americans, Europeans or anything else, not as efficient professionals or smart academics, but as strong, good, responsible, efficient and wise human beings.”
“Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.”
“Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.”
“Raise your power in silence, become a dynamite of resilience.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.”
“Raise your right palm: We do solemnly swear
To stack more dough more calmly this year.”
“Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future.”
“Raise your sons to be
better humans, before you tell your
daughters
to cover up.”
Source: The way it is
“Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.”
“Raise your sword at me again and I shall show you no mercy!”
Source: The Crossing Pit
“Raise your thoughts, not your fists.”
“Raise your vibration,
Not your tone of voice..
You gain inspiration,
For Peace is a choice.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“Raise your words, not your voice.”
“Raised Arkansas taxes 5 times, but lowered taxes 94 times.”
“Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Raised by a progressive mother, Rosabella was outspoken, free-willed, and passionate about her beliefs. Even though she was from Royal heritage, she rarely wore a tiara. She chose comfortable, layered dresses and tall, fake-fur-lined boots rather than filigreed gowns and platforms.”
Source: A Semi-Charming Kind of Life
“Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.”
“Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one”
“Raised during Reagan, suffered through Clinton”
“Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.”
Source: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
“Raised in an era when women were valued for their sexuality, solicitude , and silence, the eighteen year old stood loyally by Arnold's side.”
Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
“Raised on a cotton farm in rural Georgia, as many white/negro families did to make a meager living, my daddy had a saying.
'All a poor man has is his good name and good credit. God help him if he looses either of those.'
I still believe that.”
Source: Murder in Cleveland, GA
“Raised on screened porches and greenhouse humidity,
I know how to suck the coolness out of concrete cracks.”
“Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval.”
“Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.”
“raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?”
“Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.”
“Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.”
“Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.”
“Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad.”
“Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.”
“Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.”
“Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.”
“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”
“Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.”
“Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.”