Ground Quotes
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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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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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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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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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When the ground is torn up, that’s when you plant seeds.
Ben Mikaelsen
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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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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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Where you have friends you should not go to inns.
George Eliot
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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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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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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
