Top 532 Backgrounds Quotes & Sayings

It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

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

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

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

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator.

I have a lot of friends with different backgrounds.

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

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

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.

Americans of all backgrounds and in all kinds of circumstances are stressed out by feeling overwhelmed and being over-committed.

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

One of the things I do really appreciate is that my audiences tend to be a wide range of ages and backgrounds, and I ascribe that to putting in the hours.

It's fun to interact with artistes from various genres and backgrounds.

Romesh Ranganathan and I come from similar backgrounds and we've both done well for ourselves.

I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.

The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and backgrounds that became a common thing among artists in America. Many of the great artists in America, for example, came from Jewish families and backgrounds that fled all the way from Russia. It's remarkable, the great masters of American art and cinema who were coming from old roots in little villages there. And then Hollywood, and the haunting, hypnotic impact that American Cinema had throughout the world . . .

Through our Building Bridges dialogues at Accenture, where we have brought together people from diverse backgrounds to have sometimes difficult conversations, such as around race, I have experienced the power of storytelling to help people from diverse backgrounds understand each other.

I have worked hard to represent people of all backgrounds and I have always done so in a spirit of tolerance.

My law clerks come from diverse backgrounds and points of view.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

My parents, they come from different backgrounds. They don't even value money.

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.

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

I believe it is the flaws that make us interesting, our backgrounds, the hardships.

I've been lucky that I haven't encountered much adversity growing up in London and having friends from all different backgrounds.

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

The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.

I'll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you've got to have that mentality and personality. I'd rather be the bass guy.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

No matter what kind of backgrounds two men are from, if you go, 'Hey, man, women are crazy,' you've got a friend.

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didnt even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

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I'm incredibly proud of the fact that my government has worked closely with communities of all different backgrounds.

I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.