Cornerstone Quotes

1. "Marriage has four cornerstones but the cornerstone of finding a right partner is gemstone of the cornerstones."
Author: Anyaele Sam Chiyson

2. "It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
Author: Barack Obama

3. "I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music."
Author: Ben Harper

4. "Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country."
Author: Bill Frist

5. "Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear."
Author: Bill Frist

6. "The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool - his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character."
Author: Charles Alexander Eastman

7. "Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients. An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality—but it is not what people and organizations want."
Author: Daniel Kahneman

8. "Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?"
Author: Daniel Quinn

9. "What we learn is that the scientist is as important a part of this experiment as the electron, and that the scientist and the electron are in fact connected. This experiment is the cornerstone of the holistic universe theory."
Author: Danny Scheinmann

10. "Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it."
Author: David Sanborn

11. "Let faith and hope be the cornerstones for all of your tomorrows."
Author: Deborah L. Parker

12. "What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity, that's what I think, while change on the other hand, is the cornerstone of new ideas. God knows I want new ideas and new experiences"
Author: Diane Keaton

13. "I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am."
Author: Dwight Yoakam

14. "Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."
Author: E.A. Bucchianeri

15. "Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans."
Author: Ed Gillespie

16. "Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected."
Author: Edgar Lee Masters

17. "I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith."
Author: Francis Collins

18. "When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward – in a word, a man. And upon this rock He has built His Church, and the gates of Hell have not prevailed against it. All the empires and the kingdoms have failed, because of this inherent and continual weakness, that they were founded by strong men and upon strong men. But this one thing, the historic Christian Church, was founded on a weak man, and for that reason it is indestructible. For no chain is stronger than its weakest link."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

19. "Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze."
Author: Garrison Keillor

20. "Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty."
Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

21. "Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress."
Author: Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

22. "What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."
Author: Hu Shih

23. "Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission."
Author: John R. Allen

24. "In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
Author: Kamisese Mara

25. "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
Author: Kofi Annan

26. "Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights."
Author: Leland Stanford

27. "Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have."
Author: Mark Thomas

28. "Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
Author: Mary Kay Ash

29. "I met you at the cornerstone on the highway to bedlam./Walked with you to the pinnacle, along that ledge to hell,/Traveled along the passageway of all things aching,/But would crawl with you if you wanted me to/On the steeple point to hope./So we can tip the stars and hold the moon,/Graze the sun, but make it soon."
Author: Melina Marchetta

30. "Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one."
Author: Michael Chiklis

31. "I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
Author: Milos Forman

32. "Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state."
Author: Monica Crowley

33. "For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location."
Author: Mortimer Zuckerman

34. "A brick is a biographical film in which a young orphan brick from the wrong side of the track grows up to be one of the most important bricks in all brick kind, as it is now quite literally the cornerstone of one of America's greatest ballparks.(Fenway)"
Author: Nicole McKay

35. "And I would do it for you, for youBaby I'm not moving onI'll love you long after you're goneFor you, for youYou will never sleep aloneI'll love you long after you goAnd long after you're gone gone goneWhen you fall like a statueI'm gon' be there to catch youPut you on your feet, you on your feetAnd if your well is emptyNot a thing will prevent meTell me what you need, what do you needI surrender honestlyYou've always done the same for meSo I would do it for you, for youBaby I'm not moving onI'll love you long after you're goneFor you, for youYou would never sleep aloneI'll love you long after you're goneAnd long after you're gone gone goneYou're my back bone, you're my cornerstoneYou're my crutch when my legs stop movingYou're my headstart, you're my rugged heartYou're the pulse that I've always neededLike a drum baby don't stop beatingLike a drum baby don't stop beatingLike a drum baby don't stop beatingLike a drum my heart never stops beatingFor you, for you"
Author: Passenger

36. "General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures."
Author: Paul Davies

37. "The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."
Author: Phyllis Schlafly

38. "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
Author: Quentin Crisp

39. "Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind."
Author: Rafe Spall

40. "Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee."
Author: Renee Zellweger

41. "Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is quick to begin again. It is better not even to look so hard, to leave off explaining. Nothing makes me more queasy than to spend time with people who don't know that and who can't forget, and for whom such knowledge isn't a cornerstone of life."
Author: Richard Ford

42. "An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself God's gift. Be grateful."
Author: Richard Leonard

43. "Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community."
Author: Rick Renzi

44. "The associations get only richer and more intense when you realise that the very concept of truth - the cornerstone of philosophy and religion alike, let alone law - also rests heavily on the meaning of waking up. And you don't need a philosopher to appreciate it, because there are clues to its dependency in everyday phrases such as 'waking up to the truth', 'my eyes were opened' and even 'wake up and smell the coffee'. If such phrases hint that waking up and truth are bedfellows of some sort, you need only go back to the ancient Greek for corroboration. There you'll find that the word truth is 'aletheia', from which in English we get the word for 'lethargy'. But see how the Greek word is 'a-letheia' rather than letheia - that is truth is the opposite of lethargy. And what is opposite of lethargy, if not waking up?"
Author: Robert Rowland Smith

45. "He understood privacy and freedom of expression were paramount to liberty, as incompatible as they may appear. One promoted yelling and screaming, while the other encouraged people to retreat and pull within. Yet, cornerstones to American democracy, people needed them both for the lives they took for granted."
Author: Shelter Somerset

46. "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
Author: Sigmund Freud

47. "People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth's water is there. It's the blue heart of the planet — we should take care of our heart. It's what makes life possible for us. We still have a really good chance to make things better than they are. They won't get better unless we take the action and inspire others to do the same thing. No one is without power. Everybody has the capacity to do something."
Author: Sylvia A. Earle

48. "The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more."
Author: Tan Le

49. "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
Author: Wayne Dyer

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