Backgrounds Quotes · Page 25

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

I often say of my background: "That and a Metrocard will get me downtown." Honestly, I think the upshot of my training…

— Steven C. Harper

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

— Paul Rudd

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

— Rand Paul

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just…

— Estella Warren

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

— Aneurin Barnard

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to…

— Milan Kundera

Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is…

— Richard Smalley

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement…

— Lamar Alexander

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

— Anonymous

People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that…

— Tim Soutphommasane

I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a…

— Eva Mendes

This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,…

— Sun Myung Moon

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds,…

— Josh Gad

As the nation watches, Democrats and Republicans should reflect the interspersed character of America itself. Perhaps, by sitting with each other for…

— Mark Udall

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like…

— Emile Hirsch

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

— Nelson Mandela

At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created…

— Stefan Sagmeister

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

— Larry David

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the…

— Zainab Salbi

He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's…

— Saxby Chambliss

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album

— Melissa Joan Hart

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the…

— Cholly Atkins

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might…

— James A. Michener