How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white…

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

— Steven Biko

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

— Jenna Morasca

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

— John Wimber

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be…

— Michael Eisner

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And…

— Kathleen Battle

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

— Carol Higgins Clark

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

— William James

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and…

— Billy Graham

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

— Billy Taylor

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

— Chogyam Trungpa

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

— Margaret Thatcher

Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

— Dallin H. Oaks

I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author…

— Adina Porter

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers…

— Stanley Schmidt

For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them as a…

— Michael Bivins