Famous quotes containing the word raised:
“Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a liecould not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents Club”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“You overfed the boy, Maam. You raised an artificial spirit in the lad, unbecoming to his station on life. This would never have happened if you kept him on gruel.”
—Vernon Harris (c. 1910)
“He was a foola brilliant man and I loved his beard, and there was the mountain ax in his brain, and all the blood poured out, and he could not see the Mexican sun. Your people raised the ax, and the last blood of revolutionary mankind, his poor blood, ran into the carpet.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)