Backbone Quotes

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki

Truth, Play, Afraid

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
Kobe Bryant

Parents, Group, Support

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire

Life, Funny, Succeed

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry Pratchett

Family, Society, Care

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Bill Rancic

Courage, Business, Successful

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
John Salazar

Food, Down, Energy

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
Shia LaBeouf

Family, Mom, Families

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Surprise, Speed, Secrecy

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
Clementine Paddleford

Grow, Daughter, Ought

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
William J. H. Boetcker

Men, Individual, Thousand

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Health, Great, Dad

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
Bryan Cranston

Great, Comedy, Situation

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen

Family, Small, Businesses

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
John Perry Barlow

Waiting, Moral, Until

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
Emeril Lagasse

May, Whatever, Whether

I have the backbone of an eel.
Betty White

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
Dick Wolf

Character, Book, Writing

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Lucy Powell

Faith, Long, Growth

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls

Life, Faith, Strength

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
W. G. Sebald

Happy, Mind, Whole

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
Jennifer M. Granholm

Country, Lose, Nation

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
Anne Tyler

Enough, Stand, Actually

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
Christian Louboutin

Love, Mother, Before

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
Patrick Wilson

Spiritual, Thriller

There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson

Faith, Religion, Nothing

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
LeRoy Neiman

Time, Able, Drawing

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
Debbie Stabenow

Time, Help, Everything

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
Bob Barr

Time, High, Oversight

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.
Jim Hunt

Doubt, Enough, Ask

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.
Cathy McMorris

Job, Small, Tax

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