Backbone Quotes · Page 6

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

— Alan Jackson

It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

— Natalia Makarova

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

— Tommy Douglas

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing…

— Evelyn Underhill

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to…

— Ruth Smeeth

I won’t die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

— Mitt Romney

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

— Emeril Lagasse

Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here...…

— J. R. Smith

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper…

— John Steinbeck

Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They…

— Bunker Roy

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments…

— Anonymous

Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I'm not going…

— Mitt Romney

Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams.…

— J. C. Hutchins

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

— Lucy Powell

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

— William J. H. Boetcker

We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of…

— Kabir Khan

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

— Swami Vivekananda

I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many…

— Natalia Makarova

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

— Rudyard Kipling

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with…

— Gina Rinehart

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know…

— Michael Patrick King

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of…

— George Matthew Adams

Our enlisted are the backbone of our service, are exceptionally a bright group of men women.

— Joe Sestak

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the…

— Tara Reid

I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

— Austin Aries

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

— John Oliver

I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of…

— Sarah Lacy

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and…

— Guillermo del Toro

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

— Bill Pullman

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up…

— Dave Ramsey

Most of the time - in 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Devil's Backbone' - I'm talking about my childhood.

— Guillermo del Toro

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

— John Perry Barlow

No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it.

— Trey Gowdy

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

— Nat Hentoff

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

— Kate Winslet