Foundation Quotes

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

Apply loose powder on top of the foundation under your eyes, so if a little shadow spills, it's easier to wipe off.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

There's no doubt, that if you were a Clinton Foundation donor and you wanted your calls returned, I have no doubt that people got their returned.

Family is forever and the most important foundation in life.

To be honest, if I had to pick somebody to be related to in sport, who's better than Lance Armstrong with what he's done for the sport and with his cancer foundation?

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christ-like characteristics.

Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

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.

The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much.

I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

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

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Our Gospel is a Gospel of blood; blood is the foundation; without it there is nothing.

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much.