Quotes About Foundation

Beliefs were the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

Built in the 1940s, her small house is a sturdy structure of stone.

Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He

Survival is the foundation of triumph.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

You know Mountgerald, the big house at the end of the High Street? There's a ghost there, a workman on the house who was killed as a sacrifice for the foundation. In the eighteenth century sometime; that's really fairly recent," he added thoughtfully.

Bodies under the foundation, though—that's where a lot of the local ghosts come from.

house, its solid

My wife and I run a foundation where we deal with domestic violence.

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.

In my family, education was always important.

You have to build upon good performances to establish a sound football program.

The foundation of existence is not mere being itself (what is) but relationality (what is becoming): union is always toward more being.

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. 'But which is the stone that supports the bridge?' Kublai Khan asks. 'The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,' Marco answers, 'but by the line of the arch that they form.' Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: 'Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.' Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.' Polo answers: 'Without stones there is no arch.

I have finally come around to asking myself what is expressed in that sand of written words which I have strung together throughout my life, that sand that seems to me to be so far away from the beaches and desert of living. Perhaps by staring at the sand as sand, words as words, we can come close to understanding how and to what extent the world that has been ground down and eroded can still find in sand a foundation and model.

Sözlerim, senin etraf?nda hangi ülkeyi kurarsa kursun, bu saray?n yerinde kaz?klar üzerine kurulmu? bir köy de olsa, meltem sana çamur dolu bir nehir a?z?n?n kokusunu da getirse sen, hep kendi durdu?un yere benzer bir yerden göreceksin onu.

Marco Polo descreve uma ponte, pedra por pedra. – Mas qual é a pedra que sustenta a ponte? — pergunta Kublai Khan. – A ponte não é sustentada por esta ou aquela pedra — responde Marco —, mas pela curva do arco que estas formam. Kublai Khan permanece em silêncio, refletindo. Depois acrescenta: – Por que falar em pedras? Só o arco me interessa. Polo responde: – Sem pedras, o arco não existe. (p. 84)

Marco Polo describe un puente, piedra por piedra. —¿Pero cuál es la piedra que sostiene el puente? —pregunta Kublai Kan. —El puente no está sostenido por esta piedra o por aquella —responde Marco—, sino por la línea del arco que ellas forman. Kublai permanece silencioso, reflexionando. Después añade: —¿Por qué me hablas de las piedras? Lo único que me importa es el arco. Polo responde: —Sin piedras no hay arco.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

The Christian religion is no mere form of mysticism, but is founded upon a body of facts; the facts are recorded in the Bible; and if the supposed facts were not facts at all, then Christianity and the Bible would certainly sink into a common ruin.