Quotes About Foundation

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship that will cross the sea, we plant the mast to carry the sails, we plant the planks to withstand the gales--the keel, the keelson, and beam and knee--we plant the ship when we plant the tree.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.

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If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.

The family is the simplest and smallest unit of society and the real fountain of culture. If this fountain remains pure, man's culture has promise. But if it becomes polluted, all the rest will turn to dust and ashes, since the home is the foundation of the entire social structure.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another.

No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle

He felt that the world that had been shattered was once more stirring to life in his soul, in new beauty and on new and steadfast foundations.

women are the pivot on which everything turns!

but a new feeling of love for my children and the father of my children laid the foundation of a new life and a quite different happiness; and that life and happiness have lasted to the present time.

Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.

Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, "the courtroom oath—'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'—is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath…indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth.

I believe profoundly in two rules. Justice and mercy – they seem to me the foundation of all civilized life and society, if you include under mercy, toleration.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Prayer is not supposed to be all we do - it's just supposed to undergird all we do. Prayer is not supposed to be just the first thing we do, but the first, second, fourth, seventh, and final thing we do in each circumstance.

Even when ignored or denied, truth is the ultimate reference point.