Foundation Quotes

I love what Jacksonville taught me and where it led me. The good, the bad and the indifferent all helped shape me. I may not live there anymore but it lives inside me. It is and will always be my foundation.

~ Carlos Wallace

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance.

~ Bell Hooks

The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is I Am proud of you.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

~ Hyrum W. Smith

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.

~ Elizabeth George

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

~ Auguste Comte

Underneath all things means that beneath the floorboards, in the depths, in the spaces between the pebbles or sandy floor that contain the pond, that hold our own inside person, is something that can't be destroyed, a foundation that keeps all the water from sinking back into the earth. Something is there, something we need, when we come to rest, when all is lost.

~ Anne Lamott

Godliness is the foundation of blessing.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.

~ Carlos Wallace

I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts.

~ William Beaumont

The best foundation anyone can build in life is a mindset that is unwavering when the storm rages.

~ Oscar Bimpong

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

~ François Magendie

...the morning with the whole day waiting,full of promise,the nightof quiet, of no expectations, of rest.And the certainty of home, the one I live in,and the onethat lives in me.

~ Karen Hesse

Build strong foundation under your dreams.

~ Kishore Bansal

Motivation dedication and commitment is the foundation stone of strong personality.

~ Kishore Bansal

Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts normal—not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification—we are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

~ Anne Frank

Brown v. Board is the foundation by which all Americans can look for hope - hope for their children, hope for their families, and hope for a better future.

~ Mike Rogers

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

~ Alan Greenspan

Good order is the foundation of all things.

~ Edmund Burke

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

~ Thomas Reid

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

~ William Blake

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

~ Mae Jemison

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

~ Bill Gates

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

~ Shemar Moore

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

~ Frances Wright

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

~ Jeremy Bentham

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

~ Jeff Hawkins

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

~ Lilly Singh

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

~ Faith Hill

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

~ Thomas À Kempis

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

~ Mario Botta

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

~ Tom Allen

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

~ Doc Hastings

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.

~ Isabella Rossellini

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

~ John Adams

Fear is the foundation of safety.

~ Tertullian