Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

It's difficult for a 7-footer to be in the background. But I try to do it as much as I can.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

I don't think people should be judged for their background.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

I come from a very working-class background.

I think I have automobile skills and musical background.

I don't respect anyone who has a background on the independent circuit.

I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

Wrestling background, you never talk trash.

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

I don't know much about my biological background.

I come from a very conventional and non-political background.

I don't have any acting or theatre background.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I have a strong art-history background.

Background updating is absolutely the future.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

I don't shy away from softball being my background.

My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

We embrace all of our friends from every background.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

My background is as a computer scientist and programmer.

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

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

I belong to a non-filmy background, that is where my friends are from too.

I came from a very strict background.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

I come from a background of independent films.

I am myself of a mixed background.

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.