Backgrounds Quote by Michael Josephson

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established…

— Michael Josephson

Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or…

— Anthony Crosland

I came from a social background in Brazil that is very poor. We didn't have anything.

— Oscar

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

— Van Wyck Brooks

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you…

— Tom Riley

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting…

— Jonathan Coe

Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize…

— Theodor Herzl

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a…

— Thomas Jefferson

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean…

— Eugene O'Neill

“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.…

— Herman Melville

'Hereditary' is unabashedly a horror film. In a lot of ways, it's in dialogue with other horror films. But I do know that it…

— Ari Aster