#background

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

— Tippi Hedren

#i #instilled #me #morals #parents

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility. ↗

— Dorothy Height

#caring #colors #coming #creeds #dignity

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#around #aspect #background #being #celebrity

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#backgrounds #coming #competing #dealing #delhi

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#care #come #few #few things #go

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#carried #family #family background #means #out

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#background #children #designed #ensure #enter

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#background #country #cross #cross country #england

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#bias #different #different backgrounds #going #hear