Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into… — Andrea Jung
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. — John Hume
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. — B.F. Skinner
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do… — Jack Kilby
In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called… — Sandra Day O'Connor
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should… — Paula Gunn Allen
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to… — Clarence Thomas
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. — Zora Neale Hurston
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating… — Ezra Jack Keats
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more… — Swami Vivekananda
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his… — Ian Fleming
I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a… — Natalie Merchant
What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love? — E. Lockhart
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or… — Peter Zumthor
Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in… — Emerson Fittipaldi
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. — Nelson Mandela

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