“America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a problem--particularly when you've got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America--you see, that saddle's going to jump now and then and it pricks.” WorldChildrenSelfProblemBigsAmericaHousePromisePaperOur ChildrenRaisesIndependenceDefinitionsStuckMaking MoneyYour ChildrenNow And ThenDeclarationMetaphysicalDeclaration Of IndependenceGet AheadSaddlesBurrs Author:Robert Penn Warren
“Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.” RealizingPromiseExpectationsRaisesDisappointment Author:Norm MacDonald
“Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.” PromiseRaisesDisappointmentCrueltyDeceivingDependence Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.” IfsShouldChildrenAmericaFightingPovertyBrokenPromiseOur ChildrenRaisesYour Children Author:John Edward
“I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.” PeopleWantKindMeanDifficultClassStruggleMiddlePromiseTaxesRaisesIncomeMiddle ClassAgendasGet Ahead Author:Hillary Clinton
“Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]” IfsWantHandsChallengesBoysLaughingSonPromiseAngelTestsRaisesMy SonWant MeEmbarrassedTestedAbrahamDefianceGenesis Author:Elie Wiesel
“He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.” WantSaidMightForgetLaughingReadyHairPromiseDecidedRaisesYeahSticksGladEyebrowsPinsI PromiseWristsLennonGrinningBatting Author:Jandy Nelson
“God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.” PeopleWorldDoeSaidChristianPlansThis WorldPromiseRaisesVery GoodAbandonRemakesGod's Plan Author:N. T. Wright