I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
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.
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
As a kid, I had a background in theater.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags. . . this is a true international emblem.
I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different.
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years. A background check is not going to help you with that.
I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.