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I was reared on folk music. -- Rufus Wainwright
I just reared back and let them go. -- Bob Feller
Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church. -- Billy Graham
Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully. -- Heber J. Grant
We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight. -- Conor McGregor
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. -- Countee Cullen
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. -- Graham Chapman
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. -- William Ralph Inge
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. -- Anne Enright
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing. -- Erich von Stroheim
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. -- William Ellery Channing
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. -- Constance Baker Motley
I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me. -- S.A. Tawks
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. -- Marshall McLuhan
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you! -- Giuseppe Verdi
The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. -- William Gilmore Simms
Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat. -- Sylvia Earle
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. -- Gelett Burgess
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. -- Ludwig von Mises
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. -- Claire Tomalin
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. -- Emile Durkheim
"¦a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back. -- Jeff Lindsay
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. -- Francis Galton
I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about? -- Liam Neeson
No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch. -- Peter Farb
The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface. -- Stephenie Meyer
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother. -- Jean Ingelow
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. -- H. G. Wells
As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy -- George Mackay Brown
The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God. -- Herman Melville
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred. -- Orison Swett Marden
Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces. -- Dorothea Dix
I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee! -- Emily Bronte
An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table. -- Stendhal
By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors. -- Cynthia Ozick
I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me. -- Jill Scott
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. -- Ambrose Bierce
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. -- John Bunyan
It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers. -- Arthur Capper
I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country. -- Jack Brickhouse
So, what do you think, my dear, will it be a girl or a boy?" "It will be a soul-stealer, apparently." "What!" The earl reared away from his wife and looked down at her suspiciously. -- Gail Carriger

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