You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

I was raised by a strong single mother.

I've heard legends and maestros praise my voice. It's overwhelming. I'm a nobody who shouldn't be at the receiving end of the such comments, and I'm extremely humbled.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

I do not raise brats!

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I was raised Catholic.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

I raised my boys good.