Backgrounds Quotes · Page 9

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

— Barbara Bush

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

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

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

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

— Alex Prager

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

— Horace Silver

Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.

— Bill Maher

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

— Daniel Tosh

I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball,…

— Frank Thomas

We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's…

— Todd Farmer

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then…

— Judy Blume

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of…

— Sonia Sotomayor

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages…

— David Krumholtz

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the…

— Thomas Sowell

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to…

— Anonymous

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware…

— Stephen Batchelor

40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

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

A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds…

— John Templeton

Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get…

— Alexandra Potter

And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running…

— Terence McKenna

with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with…

— Inez Haynes Irwin

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'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very…

— Joel Silver

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

— Mary Barnett Gilson

I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find…

— Alton Brown

I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and…

— Justin Broadrick

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job…

— Johnny Marr

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable…

— Brie Larson

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

— Jane Brody

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately,…

— Erin Gruwell

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

— Michele Bachmann

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

— A. C. Benson

It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had…

— Condoleezza Rice

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

— Jordan Dane

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who…

— Mark Foley

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the…

— Julian Fellowes

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

— Brent Spiner