Quotes About Foundation

Joinery, it now occurs to me, must be the foundation of all craft. You put two things together to make something else, to accomplish some purpose; the better they fit, or work together, the greater the pleasure from the making.

Protestants, in the words of the famous Protestant Biblical scholar Credner, "have built a new Church on the foundation of Scripture, first without understanding, then without the will to understand, that Scripture itself rests on nothing but Tradition.

he had violently opposed—as had the entire Curia—the foundation of the State of Israel.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

But since the great foundation of fear in children is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and " proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property;" and that which made up the greater part of what he applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had improved the conveniencies of life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others.

My people have a saying that every civilization is founded in a terrible crime.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.

A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.

You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on sticks?' Brother Balaam jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at the church behind him. 'Ye'll get no civilization worth havin' in a new country unless ye lay down a few martyrs' bones for a foundation,' he said. 'They generate. Slow but sure.

The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the mystery lurking at the base of all things. We build a framework on top of mystery because we need someplace to live, some manner of surviving nature's fury and our mundane daily needs.

This is Lucy." She added, almost playfully, "Lucy comes from nothing." I took no offense, and really, I take none now. But I think: No one in this world comes from nothing.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

In some ways, Bacon also looked beyond Aristotle. First, he believed that no natural or physical science could get anywhere without a firm foundation in mathematics. He called it the "gate and key" to all science.

The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know God." His message is that

Al encuentro de alguien —respondió enigmático—. A buscar la piedra que el Gran Arquitecto rechazó, y que es la maestra del ángulo; la base de la obra filosófica.

He felt the room's walls solid around him. This house, his wife, his kids: that was what defined him. He sought no purchase on the world beyond these things.

The pathway to a nation's greatness is paved with truth

Love our principle, order our foundation, progress our goal.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.