#background

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. ↗

— Larry David

#degradation #mostly #sloth

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #engineers #function #functional #had

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background. ↗

— Travis Tritt

#big #bluegrass #part #really

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#even #harder #makes #poor #who

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#deprived #i #idea #infancy #like

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

— Walter Gilbert

#get #i #knowledge #people #power

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#beings #dear #early #enough #feel

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. ↗

— W. E. B. Griffin

#i #military #my own #own #sergeant

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. ↗

— John Hume

#background #banks #before #borrow #class