Foundation famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.
-- Abdullah Gul -
The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...
-- Adolf Hitler -
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.
-- Adolf Hitler -
You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
-- Alan Autry -
Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
-- Alan Bullock -
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
-- Alan Greenspan -
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.
-- Albert Einstein -
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
-- Albert Pike -
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Geometry is the foundation of all painting.
-- Albrecht Durer -
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
-- Albrecht Durer -
For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.
-- Alexander Kotov -
Love is the foundation of all obedience.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
-- Alexis Soyer -
Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character....
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
-- Alicia Vikander -
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.
-- Ambrose -
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
-- Amy Chua -
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery.
-- Andrei Sakharov -
The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation
-- Andrey Illarionov -
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
-- Anne Frank -
A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
-- Armstrong Williams -
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
-- Arsene Wenger -
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
-- Arthur Helps -
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.
-- Asger Jorn -
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.
-- Asger Jorn -
I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.
-- Ashley Greene -
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
-- Auguste Escoffier -
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
-- Auguste Escoffier -
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
-- Bahman Ghobadi -
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
-- Barbara Smith -
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
-- Bell Hooks -
Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance
-- Bell Hooks -
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.
-- Benjamin Rush -
A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.
-- Benjamin Watson -
The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.
-- Bertrand Russell -
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
-- Bette Midler -
There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.
-- Bill Belichick -
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
-- Bill Drayton -
Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
-- Billy Graham -
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
-- Billy Graham -
A frame is the foundation from which everything evolves.
-- Bob Burg -
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
-- Bob Goff -
I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.
-- Bob Schieffer -
I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.
-- Bobbi Brown -
After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.
-- Bobbi Brown -
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
-- Brad Henry -
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.
-- Brander Matthews -
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
-- Brenda Lee -
Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
-- Brian Tracy -
The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.
-- Brian Tracy -
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
-- Brian Tracy -
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
-- Bruce Conner -
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
-- Bruce Lee -
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
-- C. Everett Koop -
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
-- C. West Churchman -
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
-- Caleb Cushing -
Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.
-- Calvin Johnson -
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
-- Candace Cameron -
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
-- Carl Jung -
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
-- Carl Lewis -
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.
-- Carlo Rovelli -
I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.
-- Carlos Gracie, Jr. -
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would ***** it, it seems quite otherwise.
-- Catherine McAuley
