Background Quotes

1061 quotes by 946 authors

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for… — Tinie Tempah
Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to… — Thomas Sowell
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish… — Rory McIlroy
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. — Rickie Lee Jones
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. — Gabby Douglas
I welcome anyone that wants to come into the WWE and try it, because, I was the type of person that was not welcome with… — The Miz
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone… — Susanna Tamaro
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled… — Fred Hoyle
I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join… — Chris Isaak
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic… — John Thomas Sladek
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds… — Henry David Thoreau
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. — Ennio Morricone
Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity. — Sarah Manguso
Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process… — Adam Savage
From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe)… — William James
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man. — Thomas Carlyle
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life. — Russell Baker
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. — Robert Breault
Like it or not the American people support the term 'background check,' they support the concept of it even though they know it won't work… — Alan Gottlieb

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