Bedrock Quotes

“The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice ‘for’ self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.”

“Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.”

“Trust is the bedrock of intimacy”

“That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.”

“Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.”

“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.”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chainsinert, violent, the suffrage of our days.”

“Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication it can really connect people. ”