Ground Quotes
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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.
Homer -
When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
Elvis Costello
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When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.
Kathleen McDonald -
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
Stephen Lewis -
I wondered if that’s what death sounded like. Like a snowflake falling on the ground.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps -
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.
Jon Kyl -
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.”
William Cronon
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Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.
Bernice L. McFadden -
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
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 -
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust -
All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
Sarah Dessen -
One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.
Caroline Stevermer
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No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority of Christians are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.
John Calvin -
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.
John Ruskin -
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.
Paul Reiser -
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.
Paulo Dybala -
Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.
Euny Hong -
If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
Gary Dornhoefer
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
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.
Blake Butler -
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
Ernest Shackleton -
Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.
Haruki Murakami