Famous quotes containing the words background and/or knowledge:
“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)