Backbone Quotes

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Toughness is not being a bully, it’s having a backbone.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

A drummer is usually like the backbone.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Ceremony is all backbone.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

The drums are what drives the whole thing. It's the backbone of the song.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

My Christian faith is my backbone

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

I won’t die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos)