Backbone Quotes

174 quotes by 156 authors

Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in… — Swami Vivekananda
I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. — Alex Sink
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. — Kara DioGuardi
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about gettin' drunk and gettin' sober. It's about leavin' and it's about comin'… — Jeff Foxworthy
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone. — John Diefenbaker
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now… — J. C. Hutchins
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character… — Dick Wolf
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love.… — Rajneesh
We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone… — Duffy Daugherty
Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and… — Ruben Hinojosa
You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through… — Neal Shusterman
Toughness is not being a bully, itâ€™s having a backbone. — Robert Kiyosaki
[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of… — Andrew Sullivan
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the… — John Steinbeck
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone,… — George Matthew Adams
For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are… — Ed Begley, Jr.
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has… — Albert Einstein
I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation. — Bill Pullman
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet… — Rick Boucher

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