Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What… — Robert Winston
I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that… — Robert Winston
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of… — Reese Witherspoon
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in… — Virginia Woolf
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit… — Henry B. Eyring
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start… — Greg Graffin
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life. — John Oliver
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her… — Jhumpa Lahiri
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. — Annie Proulx
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in… — Georges Bataille
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and… — Anais Nin
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking… — C.S. Lewis
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or… — D. H. Lawrence

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