And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

- Albrecht Durer

The foundation of beauty is the body.

- Azzedine Alaia

Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.

- Awkwafina

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

- Ashley Greene

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.

- Asa Gray

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

- Armstrong Williams

I always have my Laura Mercier foundation and concealer with me, and I love the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. My favourite is shade 08, because it's just such a lovely natural colour with just a bit of pink to it.

- Abbey Clancy

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

- Anthony Kennedy

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

- Annalee Newitz

In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do something positive in the world. I sought out projects that both helped the environment and improved peoples' standards of living. The more I researched, the more I gravitated toward solar.

- Alex Honnold

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

- Alan Greenspan

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

- Alan Autry

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

- Aerin Lauder

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

- Anne Wojcicki

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

- Anita Roddick

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

- Anita Roddick

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

- Ambrose Bierce

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

- Ambrose Bierce

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

- Alice Walker

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

- Alfred A. Montapert