#background

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#class #education #even #family #frees

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#background #children #designed #ensure #enter

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready. ↗

— Jason Statham

#away #background #big #brushed #endured

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#had #i #neat #parents #people

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#get #mainstream #mainstream media #material #media

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#brother #business #education #fashion #had

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#coloring #emerges #every #explicitly #imaginative

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#connect #culture #family #grew #had