Ground Quotes
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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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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.
Blaise Pascal
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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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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?
Cate Tiernan
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
Marilyn Monroe
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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.
Eugene Delacroix
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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
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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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In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.
Jonathan Krisel
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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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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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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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The ground is not as solid as I would like it to be.
Warren East
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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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You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that?
Barry Webster
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We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.
Anthony of Sourozh
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The constant pressure when you slam your foot into the ground when you bowl must have done the damage.
Andre Nel
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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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If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.
Jordan Peterson
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I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.
Stevie Wonder
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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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For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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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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When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
Lao Tzu