Quotes About Foundation

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.

What lasts is what you start with. – CHARLES WRIGHT from A Journal of Southern Rivers

As a text, the Quran is more than the foundation of the Islamic religion; it is the source of Arabic grammar. It is to Arabic what Homer is to Greek, what Chaucer is to English: a snapshot of an evolving language, frozen forever in time

In the beginning was simplicity.

More recently, the physicist Russell Stannard (one of Britain's three well-known religious scientists, as we shall see) has thrown his weight behind an initiative, funded by—of course—the Templeton Foundation, to test experimentally the proposition that praying for sick patients improves their health.36

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust.

For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the abolition of classes not the improvement of the existing society but the foundation of a new one.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Behind every great man is a good brother.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.