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 shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
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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.
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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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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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.
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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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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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We have only prepared the ground. If it is possible to continue? .... it's not clear yet. We have to wait until the speech.
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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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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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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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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.
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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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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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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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The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.
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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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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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I wondered if that’s what death sounded like. Like a snowflake falling on the ground.
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
