Quotes About Background

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

As a songwriter, I got used to being in the background.

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

I do love a good atmospheric soundtrack, me.

From what I've heard, videogame soundtracks - obviously, there's less budget and all of that - it just seems like game soundtracks are farmed out among friends. And it seems like more of an afterthought. It's a videogame. It's much more background.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

The media picks on me because I don't have a family background like other female leaders of South Asia. Look at Indira Gandhi, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina. They were all someone's daughter or wife. I have no such background.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

I was born in Spain.

She is the innocent stuff in the background of time.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?

Personally I blame the Flynn effect—in reverse. They come from a background of sensory deprivation. It's nothing that a course of neural growth enhancers can't fix in a year or two

song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background

Ethnically I am a mix of many, many, many things.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.