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Quotes About Foundation

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.
~ Russell Simmons
It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.
~ Todd Lieberman
We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.
~ Laini Taylor
I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
~ Lance Armstrong
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
~ Mark Twain
All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures — an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.
~ Mark Twain
Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.
~ Mark Twain
If there is to be peace on earth and good will toward men, we must finally believe in the ultimate morality of the universe, and believe that all reality hinges on moral foundations.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ordinary man places his life's happiness in things external to him, in property, rank, wife and children, friends, society, and the like, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Our brains are not the wisest parts of us. In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon an important step, his action is directed not so much by any clear knowledge of the right thing to do, as by an inner impulse (an instinct) - proceeding from the deepest foundations of his being.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Jessie F. Richardson Foundation
~ Atul Gawande
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~ Audre Lorde
Everything important originated with nothingness.
~ Augusten Burroughs
These core certainties are sheltered from your scrutiny. Because you know you can depend on them, you never question them.
~ Augusten Burroughs
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Nicholas Nabokov's first wife did all in her power to make the new arrivals comfortable, arranging for them to occupy the flat across the hall in her East Sixty-first Street brownstone until the Tolstoy Foundation located a summer sublet on upper Madison Avenue.
~ Stacy Schiff
The Substrate which lay under the whole world.
~ Stephen Baxter
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
~ Stephen Covey
No enterprise can become or rains truly great without a core set of principles to preserve to build upon
~ Stephen Covey
There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.
~ Stephen Kendrick
Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.
~ Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself
~ self-love.
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo