Backbone Quotes

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.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

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?

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

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.

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

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

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

Ceremony is all backbone.

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

My Christian faith is my backbone

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

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.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.

If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.

Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.