Quotes About Background

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

No matter how high up you get, never forget where you came from.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

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

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.