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Quotes About Foundation

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
~ Wodehouse
Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.
~ Yann Martel
My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all.
~ Yann Martel
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Fairness is not decomposable into other classified strengths, although such characteristics as kindness may lay its foundation and such characteristics as self-regulation may facilitate its implementation.
~ Christopher Peterson
There is the globe, The foundation of my bodily existence. It wears me out with work and duties, It gives me rest in old age, It gives me peace in death. For the on who supplied me with what I needed in life Will also give me what I need in death.
~ Unknown
precisely seventy years after the captivity began, just as Jeremiah had predicted. The foundations of the second temple were laid by the spring of 536 BC.
~ Chuck Missler
She might be building a house around a single brick, but this brick was all she had.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Without honesty we can build nothing at all. Trust rests upon honesty's foundation, as does affection and even love.
~ Unknown
Over the past decade Stallman created a powerful editing program called Gnu-Emacs. But Gnu's much more than just a text editor. It's easy to customize to your personal preferences. It's a foundation upon which other programs can be built. It even has its own mail facility built in. Naturally, our physicists demanded Gnu; with an eye to selling more computing cycles, we installed it happily.
~ Clifford Stoll
it may be comforting to recall that detailed longitudinal analysis of the behavior of a single solar system was the foundation stone for Kepler's laws, and ultimately Newton's.
~ Herbert A. Simon
I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.
~ Herbie Mann
religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;
~ Herman Bavinck
it is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in the rational and moral nature of man.
~ Herman Bavinck
Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.
~ Herman Bavinck
The crash, he believed, had been a lancet applied to an abscess. A good bleeding was necessary to do away with the swelling so that the market could find its true bottom and rebuild on solid foundations.
~ Unknown
But he holds me as though I am the only solid thing in the world.
~ Holly Black
The great artifice of regarding small deviations from the truth as being the truth itself is at the same time the foundation of wit, where the whole thing would often collapse if we were to regard these deviations in a spirit of philosophical rigor.
~ Unknown
No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.
~ Unknown
Because sometimes you need to start at the beginning in order to make sense of the end. *
~ Unknown
Stories are for people what water is for plants.
~ Linda Hogan
An 'open story of counting', it must be said that mathematical methodology is a cumulative effort rigorously built atop previous checks.
~ Unknown
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.
~ Linwood Barclay
If she'd learned anything, it was that life was full of seasons. Some swooped in and caught her off guard, leaving her bruised and broken, while others had given her peace and laughter. In every season, in each step of the journey, there was always that firm foundation, as the old hymn said. Lisa Harris. Shattered - Lisa Harris
~ Unknown