Backgrounds Quotes

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

My family background was deeply Christian.

Jazz is not background music.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

I don't come from a privileged background.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

My background was in performing originally.

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.