Best 168 quotes in «backgrounds quotes» category

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

My background is in musical comedy.

My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

My background is in health care.

My background was in performing originally.

My background is Scottish.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

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 family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.

When I was exposed to the history and the cultural background of why women whose husbands die, why they have to become ascetic or live a life that is completely deprived of emotional or social or cultural sustenance, I was really shocked.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.

With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agrotera)

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.