Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble 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 experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

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

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

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

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

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

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

I come from a sports background and the spirit was always alive to strive for more, and better.

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

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

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

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

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

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

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

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

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

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in.

I'm that dude from the ad about background checks where I put a rifle together blindfolded.

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

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

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

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

One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

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

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

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

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people.

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

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.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

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

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

What a reason the Company has for observing its Rules faithfully: to do what the Son of God came into the world to do! That there should be a Company, and that it should be the Company of the Mission, composed of poor men, and that it should be entirely dedicated to that purpose, going here and there through hamlets and villages, leaving the towns behind-something that's never been done-and going to announce the Gospel only to persons who are poor; yet, those are our Rules!

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.

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

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

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

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

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

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

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

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

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.

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

It does not matter what is the background of actors as long as they fit the role assigned to them.

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

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

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

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.