Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really… — William James
Self-disciplin e is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With… — Brian Tracy
You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents,… — David Carson
I really donâ€™t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the worldÂ withÂ others, not as an aristocratic… — Ermanno Olmi
Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background. It… — Leslie Ludy
Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate â€¦ Itâ€™s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants… — Sarah
To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We… — Josh Sugarmann
IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then,… — Rupert Spira
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. — William Standish Knowles
Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing… — Richard Branson
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like… — Ludwig van Beethoven
I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends… — Prince William
Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a… — Jean Klein
Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great! — P. N. Elrod
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. — Coco Lee
The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have. — Deborah Needleman
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again. — Diane Ackerman
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are,… — Kate Mosse
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard — Bill Bailey

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