Ground Quotes
3275 quotes by 2341 authors
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but…
— Aristotle
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
— Paul Auster
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to…
— Paul Auster
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being,…
— Diane Ackerman
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now…
— Teresa of Avila
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back…
— Sai Baba
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
— Honore de Balzac
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
— Douglas Adams
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Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
— Drew Barrymore
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
— Joseph Addison
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium…
— Walter Benjamin
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the…
— Wendell Berry
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do…
— Annie Besant
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I…
— Josh Billings
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as…
— Tony Blair
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to…
— Sara Blakely
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
— Wade Boggs
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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm…
— Richard Nelson Bolles
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