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Quotes About Backbone

Manufacturing is the backbone of Connecticut's economy, and suppliers such as Click Bond depend on partnerships with U.S.-based manufacturers that export many of their products with Ex-Im's backing.
~ Elizabeth Esty
SK will remain the strongest supporter to help creative economy centers become the backbone of the Korean economy.
~ Chey Tae-won
Working families are the backbone of our state, and supporting them will strengthen our economic footing and make Connecticut a stronger place to live, work, and do business.
~ Ned Lamont
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
~ Herman Melville
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
~ Aerin Lauder
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
~ Confucius
[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
~ Brian Schweitzer
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
~ Tommy Douglas
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.
~ Jane Roberts
As you get going, keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
~ Jason Fried
keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
~ Jason Fried
He searched her face. "Don't worry about the painting. It'll take care of itself. But you can't let this determine your future. You'll find other quests. You'll face other challenges. All I'm asking is that you face them like a woman with backbone, not the self-conscious woman who hid behind her grandfather the day she arrived. Making your own path will take courage, and you have that courage.
~ Regina Jennings
Pamela looked at his retreating back with admiration. He represented the backbone of Britain at this moment. A skinny, awkward bookworm, yet determined to keep going for as long as it took to defeat Hitler.
~ Rhys Bowen
History Is The BACKBONEOf FutureLearn and Grow
~ K Kapoor
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I took a deep breath and—alongside the oxygen and the carbon dioxide—I exhaled tidbits of the intense shame and fear that I had carried as an extra weight on my backbone.
~ Alice Wong
But because New York was the sort of place it was, there were also many artists with true backbone – robust people who could not be broken. And these artists were doing good work.
~ Yayoi Kusama
If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career
~ Kate Winslet
Kindness is not weakness, Malcolm. Forgiveness isn't lack of backbone. Forgiveness is the thing that lets human beings not strangle each other after a half an hour's acquaintance. It's not something you in particular should shit on, you know?
~ Amy Lane
There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
~ Patrick Wilson