Ground Quotes
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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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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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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground.
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Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
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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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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.
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I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.
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We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.
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We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.
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I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
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Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
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I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.
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There are actors that come in and do a fight sequence, but when they have to fall on the ground or take a tag to the belly a bit too hard, they're shocked at how real it is.
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?
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Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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When the ground is torn up, that’s when you plant seeds.
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To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all things to grasp this firmly,because, when it is rightly understood and practiced, it includes all else.
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Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn’t think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out—like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.
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Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
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Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
