Quotes About Foundation

My family is the engine of everything, and on a personal level, I feel peace, stability, and they give me force, which is reflected on my work, my recordings, and every time that I go out on tour. They are my base, my everything.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm's golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I'm so competitive, I don't want to go and just pretend I'm a good golfer.

I work off of my early demos. I'll keep adding on top of that, but I usually gravitate towards whatever that original idea was.

Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

I think I have a good track record, both in commercial investing and in philanthropic investing. I don't have any interest in creating a named foundation; I have an interest in really good impact for capital. I think I'm pretty good at doing it, so I'm going to apply myself to doing it in my lifetime.

A big hook can be great; you'll have a big opening. But if you haven't got the right foundation, you're never going to keep that train on the tracks.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.