Best 168 quotes in «backgrounds quotes» category

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

Background for Humans

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

I came up from a difficult background.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I come from a background of independent films.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.