#background

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

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

#husband #i #just #waltzing

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie! ↗

— Breaux Greer

#character #else #here #i #movie

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album. ↗

— Melissa Joan Hart

#background #blondie #her #i #new

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#backgrounds #coming #competing #dealing #delhi

I am myself of a mixed background. ↗

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

#background #i #i am #mixed #myself

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#carried #family #family background #means #out

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #country #cross #cross country #england