Quotes of: Raised Keyword

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling!

The Little Silkworm

Wisdom's daughter walks alone—” “Ella!” Frank stood suddenly. “Maybe it's not the best time—” Ella continued, cupping her hands over her ears and raising her voice.

The Mark of Athena

Hazel squinted. "How far?" "Just over the river and through the woods." Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?" Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.

The Son of Neptune

I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breaths and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

Selected Poems

Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand...

The Squire

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you." Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.

Surrender

Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

The Shadow of the Wind

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

Tell Me When I'm Dead

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

The Passion of Jesus Christ

Wait,” Quinn said. “There’s one more thing.” I turned around and raised an eyebrow. His eyes were wary and he lacked his usual confidence. “Go to the Winter Dance with me.

Perfect Glass

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.

Père Goriot

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

Parallel Lives

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any.

Parenting Pitfalls: Common Parenting Mistakes and Common Sense Solutions

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Twelve Angry Men

Kneel!” he ordered. My head raised in defiance, I stepped forward. “I am Princess Andrea de Montemaior. I will kneel to no one,” I said to the shadows inside.

Two Moon Princess

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

The Tolkien Reader

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

Tomato Red