Bedrock Quotes

84 quotes by 74 authors

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of… — Marshall McLuhan
(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock… — Marian Wright Edelman
Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per… — Sean Lennon
So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness. — Anna Quindlen
The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and… — Sam Storms
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of Godâ€™s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism… — R C Sproul
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him… — James Gleick
Israel's democracy is the bedrock on which our relationship stands. It's a shining example for people around the world who are on the frontline of… — William J. Clinton
Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty?… — Rick Bass
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and… — Herbert Hoover
This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the… — Garrison Keillor
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. — Lynn Abbey
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. — Tayari Jones
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. — Mike Jackson
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious… — Kamisese Mara
And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate strugglesâ€”asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps,… — Naomi Klein
The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will… — Gerald R. Ford

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