Backgrounds Quotes · Page 6

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

— Arfa Karim

I made a living being a background singer for years.

— Katey Sagal

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

— Peter Capaldi

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

— Friedrich Schiller

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

— Melissa Joan Hart

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

— Barbara Goldsmith

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.

— Cholly Atkins

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don't think…

— Dick Cheney

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

— Pierre de Coubertin

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

— Frederick Lenz

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

— Pope Benedict XVI

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in…

— Denise Mina

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and…

— Randall Kennedy

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

— Madeleine Albright

Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don't know how many wives he has. I'm not saying that I believe in…

— Bill Maher

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's…

— Robert Winston

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music…

— Anthony Hopkins

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class…

— Eric Ries

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one…

— James Redfield

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my…

— Salma Hayek

I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a…

— Nicole Beharie

Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the…

— Rosemary Verey

Well, it's not all the same, but there are a lot of parallels. I'm not sure how to answer [on psychology background],…

— Paul Beatty

My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was…

— William Wegman

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an…

— Ben Aaronovitch

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I…

— Anonymous

People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft"…

— Riane Eisler

When Hillary's getting knocked around by the folks on the Hill is Bill going to go Larry King to knock her enemies…

— Josh Marshall

Everyone is aware of the fact that visual and auditive perspective are identical; the only difference being that they are created and…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

— Cyril Ritchard

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

— Chris Jericho

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

— Elizabeth Emken

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

— Danny Boyle

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

— Jan Tschichold

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

— Tim McGraw

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

— Robert Genn