Background Quotes

1061 quotes by 946 authors

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they… — Jennifer Garner
I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime… — Lisa Gardner
Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what… — Matt Gonzalez
My background is Scottish. — Melissa George
So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk… — Petra Stunt
I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble… — Marc Anthony
The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact,… — Philip Warren Anderson
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are… — Piers Anthony
Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season… — Sasha Alexander
I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't… — Jacqueline Emerson
I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV… — Sutton Foster
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… — Edgar Allan Poe
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind. — William James
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and… — David Crystal
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. — James S. Coleman
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no… — James S. Coleman
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their… — Geoff Hoon
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. — Walter Gilbert
For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm… — Chad Hugo

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