Top 35 Foundational Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Foundational Quotes from famous people such as Thomas Kinkade, Annalee Newitz, Madison Cawthorn, Hamza Yusuf, Mike Quigley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home,

What I paint touches on foundational life values. Home, family, peacefulness. And one of the messages I try to constantly get across is, ‘Slow it down and enjoy every moment.’
Thomas Kinkade
‘Avatar’ imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America’s foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.
Annalee Newitz
One of the foundational attributes of Americanism is our sense of brotherhood.
Madison Cawthorn
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
Hamza Yusuf
President Trump’s executive order creating a Muslim ban undermines the foundational ideals of the United States, a nation founded by immigrants.
Mike Quigley
There is no more important foundational skill than reading.
Neil Bush
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity – the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, ‘Field of Dreams’, the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it’s a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
J. R. Moehringer
I had access to books, and I could read… but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn’t have any of that.
Tara Westover
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
John Conyers
And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson
I yearn for the day when we’ll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.
Mike Gallagher
As a Naval officer, I’ve been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That’s a universal goal for families.
Michael Mullen
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.
Diane Wood
I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing’s messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
Lauren Groff
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.
Isaac Herzog
The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
Dan Gilbert
In every case where I’ve seen a transformational school, there’s a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
Wendy Kopp
Whatever its cause, the media’s general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.
Joy Reid
Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church’s social teachings.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
The UPA’s strategy of ‘inclusive growth’ remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.
Sanjaya Baru
An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic.
Madison Cawthorn
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.
John Yarmuth
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
Monica Crowley
This foundational principle – that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source – is what made America different.
Ernie Fletcher
Being a Secret Service agent, I have an obligation not to disclose personal conversations and security details. But that doesn’t prevent me from speaking generally about foundational principles and the system of patronage and punishment I saw in the Obama administration.
Dan Bongino
But there’s no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don’t believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don’t believe in anything.
Pat Robertson
Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.
David Novak
I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That’s what ‘Secret Coders’ is. It’s both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
Gene Luen Yang
When it comes to talking to your kids about economics, start early beause the progressive culture-makers are starting earlier than you think! Cartoon storylines regularly denegrate competition and other foundational principles of capitalism.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
On the Republican Party platform and the major issues o

On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.
Trent Franks
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
Pat Robertson
If Obama’s enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country’s first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop’s foundational generation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Those things that are basically foundational – hard work, high standards, playing for your teammates, putting the team first – those things are ingrained in my fabric.
Brian Flores