Ground Quotes
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We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.
Mike Crapo
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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I don't want to redo what I've just done. I don't want to retread old ground.
David Michod
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Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
Nick Drake
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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.
Deke Slayton
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She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.
Nancy Price
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
Jordan Peterson
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Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
George Eliot
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Try to find ways to be as excited as a child who finds a penny on the ground.
Bill Loguidice
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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.
Aliette de Bodard
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Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
Ezra Koenig
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It's not that hard to keep my feet on the ground. I'm not a guy to get big-headed just cos I've scored some goals.
Timo Werner
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And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift
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It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country.
Andrew Park
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Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again.
Arthur J. Deikman
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To act for a living is a gift, and understanding you're a lucky bloke keeps your feet on the ground.
Michael Socha
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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
Rumi
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
Marilyn Monroe
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It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!
Tom Ridge
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You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that?
Barry Webster
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Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.
Moses
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How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up on the ground where the gods had walked?
Albert Goldbarth