There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
. . . The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
I was born in Washington, D. C. , and I was raised in Milwaukee.
The family gave me everything, every advantage and just poured love on me. I always had more confidence than I should have. I felt like I could do anything because that was the way I was raised. I was an only child.
I think a part of it was the way my parents raised me. I think that's part of being raised in a big Latin family. To get an adult's attention you have to do something crazy, and my way was dancing on tables and singing and dancing. That was my way of getting everyone's attention. I'm loud and I like being loud.
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.
Our children are being raised by appliances.
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.
My mom has raised me saying, "Always be yourself. " So to be able to play a character that verifies just that, is such a thrill and adventure for me.
This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt. " "No, I understand. They're your family too. " Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?
I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish. " "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish.
My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.
No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.
I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.