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Raising George Walker was not easy. -- Barbara Bush
Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs. -- Marco Rubio
Raising wages is one of my top priorities. -- Donald Trump
Raising five boys is a handful, trust me. -- Barbara Bush
Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree. -- Maya Angelou
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -- Ed Asner
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare. -- Ed Asner
Raising children has made me more patient and selfless. -- Candace Cameron
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. -- Thomas Perez
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea. -- Martha McSally
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. -- Louis Leakey
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. -- Bruno Bettelheim
Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting. -- Denzel Washington
Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little. -- Madonna Ciccone
[Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other. -- Shannon Woodward
Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women. -- Martina McBride
Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me. -- Isaiah Mustafa
Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it. -- Candace Cameron
Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry... -- Ned Sublette
Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth. -- Ann Romney
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. -- Jim Gaffigan
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. -- Sherrod Brown
I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. -- John Goodman
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Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. -- Terry Pratchett
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. -- Elizabeth Warren
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. -- Jacob Lew
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. -- Democritus
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that. -- Larry Elder
I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life. -- Josie Bissett
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that. -- Larry Elder
Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough. -- Henry Spira
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. -- Nancy Pelosi
In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater. -- Chien-Ming Wang
I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding. -- Takashi Murakami
Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile. -- Ana Monnar
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control). -- Warren Farrell
It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way. -- James Sinegal
Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation. -- Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! -- Tanya Masse
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. -- Richard Paul Evans
Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show. -- Max Greenfield
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period. -- Eric Braeden
Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it. -- Stone Gossard
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. -- William Damon
Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge. -- Susan Mann
Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion. -- Judy Woodruff
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value. -- William Petty
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. -- Bill Cosby
Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors. -- Candace Cameron
Raising a child whether yours or not, is being anointed by God to be the guardian of his Kingdom in a form of a child. -- Unarine Ramaru
Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. -- Joanna Baillie
Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. -- E. W. Howe
Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world. -- Victoria Moran
Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential. -- Nick Hanauer
Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly. -- Thomas S. Monson
Don't get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother's responsibility. It's a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope. -- Stephen Colbert
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts. -- John Calvin
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. -- Christina Romer
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. -- Anna Quindlen
God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation. -- Dikembe Mutombo
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem. -- Nick Hanauer
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. -- Barbara Tuchman
Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example. -- Candace Cameron
A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows? -- Stephen Moyer
Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way. -- Grace Gealey
I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. -- Gaby Hoffmann
As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. -- Hilary Rosen
With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised. -- Adam Sandler
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun. -- Kanye West
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? -- Rose Kennedy
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.' -- Erma Bombeck
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. -- Charlie Gonzalez
A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all. -- Julianna Margulies
Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others. -- DeAngelo Williams
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given. -- Mother Teresa
I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important. -- Patricia Polacco
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. -- Iyanla Vanzant
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is. -- Erma Bombeck
Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them. -- Nicole Ari Parker
Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me. -- Madonna Ciccone
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother. -- Idina Menzel
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. -- Eliot Spitzer
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. -- John Sununu
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. -- Jeremy Lin
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. -- Thomas Perez
Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.' -- Maria Shriver
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! -- Kris Carr
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. -- Gloria Steinem
Weaponry is a fear-raising idea. -- Toba Beta
Effective fund-raising is based on relationships. -- Jeffrey Deitch
I used to love hand raising. -- Chris Matthews
After raising twins, you get organized. -- Scott Ellis
The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising. -- Richard Dawkins
We rule out raising taxes this year. -- Luis de Guindos
I have no intention of raising taxes -- William J. Clinton
I have a pretty big fund-raising heart. -- Azita Ghanizada
We're not raising grass. We're raising boys. -- Harmon Killebrew
Re raising kids: Love, without discipline, isn't. -- Malcolm Forbes
Cutting benefits & raising retirement age are wrong answers. -- Barack Obama
I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it. -- Michelle Obama
A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child. -- Bill Cosby
When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes. -- John Hoeven
I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period. -- Markwayne Mullin
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. -- Alvin Ailey
Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people. -- Narayan
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children. -- Usher
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. -- Caitlyn Jenner
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell. -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell. -- Brandon Lee
Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families. -- Hillary Clinton
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. -- Caitlyn Jenner
I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell -- Brandon Lee

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