Quotes about Background

On the observational side, by far the most important development has been the measurement of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation by COBE (the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite)

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.

Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury; it was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

Each Christian comes from a different background, upbringing, lineage, and environment. But in Christ we are unified.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.