Quotes About Backbone

Para o homem que tem uma convicção, ela é a sua espinha dorsal.

I'm guessing that ability to withstand peer pressure and adhere to one's values might translate to the kind of backbone necessary for a successful lifelong relationship.

She's so pretty to look at and so lighthearted, the way your mother used to be before we married. But she's not, let's say, very…cerebral. And she doesn't have your backbone, your fiber.

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)

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn't exercise it very often.

Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.

You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

Any event that has occurred just five times since the first animal with a backbone appeared, some five hundred million years ago, must qualify as exceedingly rare.

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

Trust is the backbone of a relationship. Without trust the building of relationship can't stand.

Bismarck has broken the nation's backbone," he wrote in 1886. "The injury done by the Bismarck era is infinitely greater than its benefits.… The subjugation of the German personality, of the German mind, was a misfortune that cannot be undone.

I have a backbone; that doesn't make me a heel. That makes me the biggest babyface there is.

Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

I'd guess blockchains will be the full-blown backbone of virtual worlds - the system for currency, assets, identity, even governance - before doing the same in the 'real world.' Which is where I think we will end up in the real world eventually; it's just a matter of which goes first and how long until it's the case for both.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

He was sixty years old; his backbone had been as straight as his gun; his spirit-as straight as his backbone.

Park two big boys behind you and you'll stand proud enough.

Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them, but I prefer to keep my spine in the position nature intended.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.