Top 1200 Ethnic Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.

I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.

There's always going to be a gap between what you believe and what you actually do, regardless of what your background is.

I come from a background where we have been taught to give back to the society, as it is an obligation for all of us.

I come from an extremely modest background. So now I have way more than what I'm used to.

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that intelligence, as well as less controversial traits of temperament, are in large part hereditary.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

I'm not from a theatre background, I'm wary of rehearsals. But what I do like is hanging out together, on location.

I have enormous respect for people who come from a strong family background in Fine Gael.

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

Expanding background checks for all sales and transfers of firearms is simple, popular, and commonsense.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

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

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

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

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.

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

I have a background in dance, so I danced my entire life, since I was three years old.

I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.

I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the character is called 'Philip,' the chances are I won't.

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.

If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

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

I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

I would rather have a candidate that`s cohesive in bringing people together from different ethnic backgrounds but around the same policy than I would a politician that jumps and stumps in different rooms and has a different story every time.

When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.

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

A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.