Backgrounds Quotes · Page 7

Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance…

— Jay Kesler

The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to…

— Susanna Tamaro

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation…

— James Hillman

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

— Michel Eugene Chevreul

In Texas, you just learn just be nice to people and respect them, and respect where they're coming from. And understand people…

— Jordan Spieth

No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky…

— John Stott

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one…

— Yasunari Kawabata

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

— James S. Coleman

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of…

— Lillian Bassman

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

— Leona Lewis

When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become…

— Deepa Mehta

I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.

— Anushka Sharma

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

— Thomas Carlyle

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

— Lyonel Feininger

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

— Alicia Keys

[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no…

— Kenny Chesney

I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone…

— Edward Allen Bernero

But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just…

— Haruki Murakami

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version…

— Jonathan Sacks

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which…

— Valorie Curry

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at…

— Anonymous

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very…

— Kerry Washington

I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit…

— Esha Gupta

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

— Adam Jones