Backbone Quotes

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The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?