Backgrounds Quotes · Page 3

We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.

— Hershel Shanks

I don't think you have an anti-Israel background when it comes to Donald Trump.

— Brian Kilmeade

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

— Peter Mayle

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

— Jerry Spinelli

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

— Larry David

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

I come from a traditional theater background.

— Mark Ruffalo

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them…

— George Santayana

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

— Paul van Dyk

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune…

— C. S. Lewis

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to…

— Barbara Bush

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

— Anonymous

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

— Junaid Jamshed

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

— Matt Tong

I think the other thing that's interesting about the women's peloton is that if you ask what their background is most have…

— Kristin Armstrong

But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the…

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at…

— Walter Benjamin

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting,…

— Philip Warren Anderson

The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is…

— Cass Sunstein

Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth…

— Rick Riordan

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can…

— Regina King

So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things…

— Albert Hadley

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient…

— James Hillman

I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening…

— Emily Lazar

A little background: Annabeth used to adventure with Hermes's son Luke. Over time, Annabeth developed a crush on Luke. As Annabeth got…

— Rick Riordan

I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out…

— Todd Haynes

What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we…

— Peter Tork

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy.…

— Jon Stewart

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

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

— Anonymous

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

— Breaux Greer

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

— Chris Hemsworth

My background was in performing originally.

— Cy Coleman

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist

— Robin Williams

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

— Annie Proulx