17 quotes found
“Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puff...”
“A man that has not dealt with his foundation cannot deal with another man's foundation.”
“Nearly every inspirational story out there is about a person who breaks away from his or her background or community where the best is clearly defined and is not them and goes off and becomes the...”
“We're experiencing the genesis of a community where it does not matter where your roots lie, but what you believe in. We will continue to create an inclusive and sustainable spirit, spreading the w...”
“the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.”
“Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.”
“Your calling is buried in your background and life experience”
“Your calling is buried in your background on earth”
“God does not save us to make us forget our heritage, but to complete it.”
“Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135”
“Ionizing smoke detectors unnaturally raise the background radiation levels in the human environment.”
“Communicating with people from different backgrounds would make you realize that we have more in common than we could ever know from judging from afar.”
“I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.”
“He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.”
“…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.”
