Ground Quotes
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He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
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It has been the plan all along that once Bremer got his feet on the ground.
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I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.
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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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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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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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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground.
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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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We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.
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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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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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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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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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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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I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my 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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I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.
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The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.
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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 ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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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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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
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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.
