Solid Foundation Quotes

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Why should we not teach our children those principles, upon which we ourselves have thought and acted? Ought we to instill into their tender minds a theory, especially if unfounded, which is contradictory to our own practice, built on the most solid foundation? Why should we reduce them to the cruel dilemma of condemning, either those principles which they have been taught to believe, or those persons whom they have been taught to revere?

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

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

The physical evidence does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda. Physical evidence does not look away as events unfold nor does it blackout or add to memory. It remains constant and is a solid foundation upon which cases are built.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

So it takes years to make a solid company.

I have pretty good, strong support in Tulsa.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

I would like to be out there every day and be that one steady guy that everybody can lean on.

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

In view of the real character of the Mexican people, it will be necessary to enlist large numbers of the superior race. [American whites] To save that nation you want a solid foundation of character.

I think my feet were on the ground, and I had good family around me. It comes down to who you are and your upbringing.

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.