Foundations Quotes

See also Foundation Quotes

You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it`s so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. - on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.

- Alexis Bledel

What worries me is that people will take this as fact. I`m not angry, per se, that it refutes everything I hold sacred, the foundations of my beliefs. The Da Vinci Code (2006) is an admitted work of fiction but it cleverly weaves fact into maverick theories in a way that will appear plausible to some.

- Mel Gibson

We recognize all young children need to build foundations in traditional content areas, like reading and math, and we continue to provide children with the tools they need to be successful in these areas. However, research tells us that some children have higher musical or interpersonal skills than others. We have created a curriculum that provides active learning opportunities in each of the eight Tutor Time `Smarts`.

- Richard Cohen

The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

- Bill Clinton

I think it`s really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!

- Stephen Baldwin

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

- Ellen Terry

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

- John McCain

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred`s doing.

- Jim Hill

This new venture creates an opportunity for both Paramount and Universal to launch new operations throughout the world from the foundations built by our successful UIP partnership,

- Rob Moore

The first four blocks of Gulfport are nothing but foundations ... and it`s that way from Slidell, La., to just east of Pascagoula, Miss.,

- John Quinn

We believe AIM?s destiny is to provide Europe with its growth market, building sound foundations for enterprise and growth across Europe, stimulating new economic activity and reducing the cost of capital in the European economy.

- Chris Gibson

about how the courts have steadily chiseled away at religious foundations of the country for the past 40 years.

- Tony Perkins

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

- Iris Chang

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

- Mahmoud Abbas

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it`s French or Italian or Japanese - you really don`t need a cookbook anymore.

- Thomas Keller

Katrina knocked a lot of homes off their foundations, ... Now they`re just falling apart.

- Shawn Johnson

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

- Adam Wolf

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

- Alex Laughlin

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It`s their work that I`m supporting. So it`s not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.

- Alex Munter

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It`s their work that I`m supporting. So it`s not me doing it.

- Alex Munter

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

- Alex Roland

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

- Alexander Silbiger

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

- Alfred L. Kroeber

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

- Alfredo Martinez

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

- Ali Fabbro

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

- Allison Sharp

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

- Amanda Bradley

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

- Amar Zahid

We`ve already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it`s substantial.

- Amber Howser

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.

- Amy Popp

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children`s Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn`t raise a significant amount of money.

- Andrew Fyfe

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

- Andrew Moran

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

- Andrew von Eschenbach

We`ve laid the foundations and interest will build.

- Andy Bochman

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

- Martin Luther King

The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...

- Niccolo Machiavelli

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world`s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice".

- Sharan Burrow