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My family background was deeply Christian. -- Abbe Pierre
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. -- William Standish Knowles
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. -- Kim Jong Il
My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what. -- Mark Sanchez
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. -- James S. Coleman
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own. -- Cat Power
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line. -- Bob Newhart
I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins. -- Teddy Thompson
I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything. -- Eugene H. Peterson
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. -- Anne Tyler
My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another. -- Ailyn Perez
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place. -- Charles Kennedy
Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back. -- Eli Broad
I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background. -- Arfa Karim
I came out of a family background that involved itself with people. -- Ella Baker
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. -- Billy Corgan
Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family. -- Ian Kershaw
With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. -- Alexander Chee
The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier. -- Wang Jianlin
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. -- Dave Davies
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go. -- Nita Ambani
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. -- Nick Cave
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. -- Robert M. Hutchins
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. -- Michael Caine
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background. -- Nouriel Roubini
Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. -- Robert Breault
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life. -- Glen Taylor
I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded. -- DeObia Oparei
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it. -- Nancy Pearcey
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
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. -- Alan Hovhaness
Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family. -- Eugene Cernan
Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family. -- Eugene Cernan
Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation. -- V.C. Andrews

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