Ground Quotes
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He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
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It would be a fool's mission to go in and say, 'I have it; now I'm going to go in and change it. The minute you open that entitlement up, you're back to ground zero, and the Navy is not going to be tolerant of that.
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A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.
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It has been the plan all along that once Bremer got his feet on the ground.
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Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.
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Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.
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The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man
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We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.
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You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.
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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground.
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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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I threw my mouthpiece at the ground. Looking at it on TV, I could see how Joey would think I was throwing it at him.
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The mist was very dark in here, white and wet, and the cobwebs festooning the gaunt tree trunks were weighed down with thousands of shimmering, pear-shaped crystals. But it was not cold. Only still and secret and private, a hushed world within a world… They followed the sound, and after a while found a clearing, not open to the sky but clear on the ground. Long, wet grass stood there, and pine needles lay dark around the feet of the surrounding trees. In the centre, a well of water bubbled up and trickled away through the grass in two little channels already grooved in the spongy turf… Together they approached the spring, laying Aricia’s bronze coin and his own gold ring in the ice-cold, pure water, and for a moment they stayed there, hypnotised by the quiet tinkle of the gushing water.
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You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.
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My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!
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I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
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Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
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We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I’m not trying to look for excuses but that’s the reality.
