Ground Quotes

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

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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

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

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

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

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.

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.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

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.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Have courage and standing your ground. No one ever solved nothin' runnin'.

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

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.

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.

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

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

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

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

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.

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.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches.

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

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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