Raise

Famous quotes containing the word raise:

“To raise a son without learning is raising an ass; to raise a daughter without learning is raising a pig.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Still raise for good the supplicating voice,
But leave to heaven the measure and the choice,”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)