Foundations Quotes

“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, Walden

“It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

“Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“Every single Biblical doctrine of theology, directly or indirectly, ultimately has its basis in the book of Genesis.”
― Ken Ham, The Lie: Evolution

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire, but we don’t often emulate them, because quarrying, cutting, transporting, and fitting stone require a patience we no longer possess.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.”
― Ken Ham, The Lie: Evolution

“A man that has not dealt with his foundation cannot deal with another man's foundation.”
― Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

“A month passed in silence and then came an email asking if Qayennat would care to further amend, fortify or prune various sections of her proposal; Like all communication for them so far, this was well written and polite but abhorrent in its covert attempt to stamp out anything like love, to turn passion into hot air. She wanted to tell them as much, inviting them to take their stuffy foundation and stuff it up their backside”
― Anjum Hasan, THE COSMOPOLITANS

“Hakuna mtu mwenye akili timamu anayetaka mabaya katika maisha yake. Mwanamume atake mwanamke mwenye matendo mema. Mwanamke atake mwanamume mwenye matendo mema. Misingi ya hasanati ni misingi ya utu. Tukiishi katika misingi ya utu, misingi ya matendo mema, tutaishi sawasawa na mapenzi ya Mungu. Kila mtu anapaswa kuishi na mke au mume aliye mwema.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Flag up your courage high and your fears will salute it in humility. Your fears are like walls without foundations; they are afraid to go down and hence pretend to be strong! Exercise Courage!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Applying logic to potentially illogical behaviour is to construct a house on shifting foundations. The structure will inevitably collapse.”
― Stewart Stafford

“There is a common thread that weaves throughout the very fabric of every first responder. It is the innate desire to safeguard and protect one's most intimate of relationships.”
― Asa Don Brown

“And like the temple, the earth was judged at Golgotha. Trembling and shaking the earth participated in the agony of the man on the Cross and in the despair of all those who had seen in Him the beginning of the new eon. Trembling and shaking the earth proved that it is not the motherly ground on which we can safely build our houses and cities, our cultures and religious systems. Trembling and shaking the earth pointed to another ground on which the earth itself rests: the self-surrendering love on which all earthly powers and values concentrate their hostility and which they cannot conquer. Since the hour when Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed His last and the rocks were split, the earth ceased to be the foundation of what we build on her. Only insofar as it has a deeper ground, can it stand; only insofar as it is rooted in the same foundation in which the Cross is rooted, can it last.”
― Paul Tillich, The New Being

“The foundation for security and well being of a family is often built from a parent going extra miles to achieve it, doing mundane tasks to ensure it, standing up to injustice to protect it, and having the heart to listen and then express through embrace and action to each member of that sacred ohana how much they are deeply valued, unconditionally. And all the while, from birth, encouraging the other members to do the same. And often, from that foundation you have a home, well founded.”
― Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow

“But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!"
Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“A society that undermined its teachers and their authority only dug away at its own sure foundations.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life

“The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“The advice given to the children are not always actually laid by accurate foundations. Most of the time, the source from which they came out is not in control, because they are deciding a life based on fundamentals, but it must be noted that the files are being transposed, the best thing to do is to talk it consciously that each word does not interfere with its development.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Everyone loves to create ideas but fewer build upon solid foundations of thought.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Of the many foundations upon which humans rest, words are probably the most solid.”
― Nikki Giovanni, Acolytes

“If we doubt the faulty nature of the foundations that we create, we might ask if we’re currently standing on one, or are we sitting on the ground looking at the last one that collapsed. And since we’re already sitting, maybe we’d be smart to ponder that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Home is defined very aptly as “Mother as the Foundation & Father as the Roof”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“The state put a Broad-trained superintendent, Randy Ward, in charge of the Oakland schools... Ward embraced the small schools but went further; his school reform plan aimed to turn the district into a marketplace of school choice while overhauling the bureaucracy. He closed low-performing schools and opened charter schools. He attracted $26 million in grants from the Broad Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the Dell Foundation, and corporations based in Oakland.”
― Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“A walk with God can move mountains, shake foundations, and provide solutions. Seek after Him and you will be great.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“By emphasizing a deep root and strong foundation, the student can reach to the high heavens without fear of toppling over.”
― Kenneth S. Cohen, The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing

“Self-awareness is the foundation of meaningful change. Know thyself.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“A marriage should start with a strong foundation and a gift to symbolize his commitment.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Carved in Stone

“A solid home involved family and community, but it was mostly the responsibility of the two people at the helm to nurture, provide, and inspire.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Carved in Stone

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...A home is built from love. A house is built from rubble.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“An old man, going a lone highway, Came at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast and deep and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim - That sullen stream had no fears for him;
But he turned, when he reached the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting strength in building here.
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way.
You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide, Why build you the bridge at the eventide? "
The builder lifted his old grey head.
"Good friend, in the path I have come,", "he said,
"There followeth after me today
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.”
― Will Allen Dromgoole, The Bridge Builder