Quotes About Backbone

I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

They'll like it even less if I hear any words from them," I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer.

For over 220 years, Marines have served at the end of America's operational reach—on freedom's far frontiers. These Marines are the backbone of the ARG/MEU (SOC) team, our regional commanders' force of choice for both forward presence and crisis response.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

Motherhood at times like this—most times—was about the steel in your spine, not the bend.

Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

My mother is my backbone, she's always there for me unconditionally.

The drummer is the backbone of the band and is the real underrated one.

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

We know working families are the backbone of our state. If they are not financially stable, Connecticut will never be.

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Humble people were unsettling at best. All that lack of backbone. It was just creepy. Like talking to linguine.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a molecule in living cells that is similar to DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but it has one more oxygen atom in its sugar-phosphate backbone and a difference in one of its four bases.

A work force empowered to learn and innovate must be the backbone of a strategy to create flexibility by removing constraints.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

My upbringing gave me a lot of backbone and prepared me well for showbiz. It could throw anything at me and I could take it.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

I still have a lot of confidence in my offensive game. I try to get guys involved and get in the lane, but defense is my backbone.