My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds. — William Loren Katz Copy Share Image
I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds. — Paul van Dyk Copy Share Image
Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds. — Junaid Jamshed Copy Share Image
Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self. — Matt Tong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
