Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.

I started out in the theater, and my background is classical. I'd love to be in a film version of a Shakespeare play.

My identity and my background still remain with me when I go to a foreign country. I have kept my nationality.

I'm a gun owner; I'm a hunter, but you know what? I went through background checks myself in order to get it.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I do not come from a filmy background, so it took me a while to understand how this industry works.

I come from a background where I have no acting experience and when I did 'Shanti,' I got a lot of support from my parents.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

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

So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I set up the KC Academy to get more people from a black background into cycling.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.

The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they're gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life's lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.

If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

Anyone of any age or background who loved pop music liked our songs.

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.

I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They're the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

My MMA background, I think, only enhances my experience on 'Tough Enough' or in the WWE in general.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

I don't come from a film background, so I am free to work in any script that interests me.

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned.

Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

My whole family growing up played sports, so I'm definitely from a strong sporting background.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

To be honest, I think I would like a really fun, quirky character with an interesting background.

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.