Backgrounds Quotes

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.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

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

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

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.

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.

Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

I come from a traditional theater background.

My background is Scottish.

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

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.

It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

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

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

My background is in improv and writing.

The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

I come from more of a sculptural background so I think of the form before anything else.

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

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

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

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

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

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.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

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

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.