Backgrounds Quotes · Page 5

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

— Henry Blackaby

I don't know much about my biological background.

— Dan Stevens

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

— Randy Jackson

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

— John Travolta

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

— David Brin

I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.

— Anonymous

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

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

— Paul Rudd

We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory, instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for…

— Wayne LaPierre

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep…

— Negash Ali

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

— Shannon Miller

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached…

— Michael Birch

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

— Anonymous

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

— Paul Emsley

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To…

— Jason Statham

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

— Steve Martin

People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural,…

— David Blunkett

The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I…

— Ivan Reitman

I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because…

— Eboo Patel

Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life -- whatever their…

— Jean Chretien

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of…

— Michael Sandel

Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past…

— Lea Michele

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

I come from a little bit of a theatrical background. I started that way. I don't have a tremendous body of work…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false.…

— Melissa Fay Greene

Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I…

— Clarence Thomas

Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and…

— Thomas Rowe Price, Jr

I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the Cold War began to overshadow our lives.…

— Harry S. Truman

When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they…

— Mohsin Hamid

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to…

— William Barrett

There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United…

— Henry Rosovsky

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

— Demi Moore

If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.

— Ann Althouse

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

— Allen Wier

After all, children are children no matter their background.

— Julie Andrews

It's fun to interact with artistes from various genres and backgrounds.

— Neha Bhasin

In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

— Ella Baker

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

— Coco Lee