#grounds

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. ↗

— Ernest Istook

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We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

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Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#events #excuse #explain #grounds #indulge

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#beginning #did #get #i #i think

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. ↗

— Otto Schily

#emergency #example #faster #for example #grounds

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#apply #backgrounds #close #come #course

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds. ↗

— Kaya Scodelario

#backgrounds #bit #brought #certain #certain way

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#here #know #makes #many #need