Bedrock Quotes

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. (Barack Obama)
Two things form the bedrock of any open society-freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Metaphysical principles are tempting shortcuts but not reliable guides. There are good reasons why things often seem to happen for reasons-and also reasons why that's not a bedrock principle. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do." View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff. View quote
Fred Rogers
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means. View quote
Northrop Frye
Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States. View quote
Lewis M. Branscomb
In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more. View quote
Nicolas Bouvier
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. (Cory Booker)
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. View quote
Adrian Cronauer
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing. View quote
Caroline Kennedy
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that. View quote
Miranda Richardson
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. View quote
Robert W. Service
"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle-could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism. View quote
David Graeber
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy. View quote
David Guterson
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Preflight planners wanted us to stay in TV range so that they could learn from our results how they could best plan for future missions. I candidly admit that I knowingly and deliberately left the planned working area out of TV coverage to examine and photograph the interior crater walls for possible bedrock exposure or other useful information. View quote
Neil Armstrong
The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time. (Rick Perry)
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values. View quote
Ibrahim Babangida
Our tasks are definite. The first to see that no man, woman, or child shall go hungry or unsheltered through the approaching winter. The second is to see that our great benevolent agencies for character building, for hospitalization, for care of children and all their vast number of agencies of voluntary solicitude for the less fortunate are maintained in full strength. The third is to maintain the bedrock principle of our liberties by the full mobilization of individual and local resources and responsibilities. The fourth is that we may maintain the spiritual impulses in our people for generous giving and generous service-in the spirit that each is his brother's keeper. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routine... The bedrock of every religion, that your God is a promise, never to be encountered in this life, this universe. View quote
Peter F. Hamilton