Ground Quotes

Quotations list about ground, land and floor citing Anonymous, Theodore Roosevelt and Douglas Adams

  • The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.

    — Anonymous
    193
  • Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

    — Theodore Roosevelt
    48
  • Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

    — Douglas Adams
    42
  • Ground quote The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.

    The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.

    — Sayings
    33
  • The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.

    — Mexican proverbs
    31
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  • Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

    — Drew Barrymore
    19
  • If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson
    18
  • Ground quote The battleground of the mind is where life's most precious victories are won or

    The battleground of the mind is where life's most precious victories are won or lost.

    —
    7
  • Pour yourself into me and I will not let a drop of you hit the ground.

    — Rudy Francisco
    17
  • To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

    — Stephen Covey
    15
  • Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

    — Henri Frederic Amiel
    14
  • Ground quote The greatest oak was once a little nut who held his ground.

    The greatest oak was once a little nut who held his ground.

    —
    6
  • At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again.

    In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

    — Anonymous
    12
  • I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.

    — Frederick Douglass
    11
  • People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

    — Marcel Proust
    11
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  • I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

    — John Muir
    9
  • Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

    — Giambattista Vico
    8
  • He who throws dirt always loses ground.

    — Unknown
    8
  • Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

    — Charles Monroe Schulz
    7
  • He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

    — Mark Twain
    7
  • When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

    — Stanislaw Lec
    6
  • Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

    — Oscar Wilde
    6
  • You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

    — Paul Auster
    5
  • Have courage and standing your ground. No one ever solved nothin' runnin'.

    — James Dye
    4
  • Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

    — Joe E. Lewis
    4
  • The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,His giant wings prevent him from walking.

    — Charles Baudelaire
    4
  • Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground.

    Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

    — Jessamyn West
    4
  • To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

    — Albert Einstein
    3
  • The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

    — Winston Churchill
    3
  • The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

    — Douglas Adams
    3
  • No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

    — Theodore Roosevelt
    3
  • Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

    — Georg Trakl
    3
  • Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

    — Marc Maron
    3
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

    — Oliver Wendell Holmes
    2
  • God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

    — Jean Rostand
    2
  • The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

    — Thomas Jefferson
    2
  • A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

    — Henry Ward Beecher
    2
  • What are we to do about this space-age material, these plastics? It's far too valuable and far too abundant to keep putting back in the ground or send up in smoke.

    — Mike Biddle
    2
  • It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies.

    Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

    — Robin Quivers
    2
  • The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

    — Buddha
    2
  • Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will.

    Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

    — Arthur Helps
    2
  • Victory is won not in miles but in inches.

    Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

    — Louis L'Amour
    2
  • Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

    — Heywood Broun
    2
  • How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

    — J. D. Salinger
    2
  • The Guide says there is an art to flying, said Ford, or rather a knack.

    The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

    — Douglas Adams
    2
  • Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

    — Dorothy Parker
    2
  • In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

    — Stephen Crane
    2
  • The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

    — Henry Walter Bates
    2
  • I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;

    so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

    — William Shakespeare
    1
  • We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies.

    We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

    — Mark Twain
    1
  • Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

    Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

    — Samuel Butler
    1
  • Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

    — Alexander Pope
    1
  • A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

    — H. L. Mencken
    1

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