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Family Background Quotes

Abbe Pierre quote: "My family background was deeply Christian."
My family background was deeply Christian. Abbe Pierre
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
Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels. James S. Coleman
William Standish Knowles quote: "My family background was heavily slanted toward business and..."
My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. William Standish Knowles
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
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
Kim Jong Il quote: "The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not..."
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. Kim Jong Il
The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds. James S. Coleman
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type. Gary Cole
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. Jhumpa Lahiri
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. Michelle Dockery
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
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
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. Reese Witherspoon
Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it? Christine O'Donnell

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