Ground Quotes
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In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.
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The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.
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I made a really good start to my career, and there was a lot of speculation about where I'd end up going. Like I did then, I'm just trying to take this all in my stride and keep my feet on the ground.
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The father threw up on the ground. In the vomit, there were errors--strings not vomit, but language, light. The bunched up bits were writing something, words at once sunk into the ground.
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The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
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There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.
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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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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.
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We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.
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The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.
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The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.
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Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.
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You're not going to win when you turn the ball over and put the ball on the ground like we did.
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True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.
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I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.
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All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
