Ground Quotes

3275 Ground quotes by 2232 unique authors

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground… — E. V. Lucas
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. — Herman Melville
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of… — Zadie Smith
Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start… — Ellen DeGeneres
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad… — Martin Amis
It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,… — Thomas Jefferson
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide… — Douglas Adams
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior… — George Washington
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground. — William Cowper
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did. — Chinua Achebe
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its… — Hannah Arendt
As president, my goal in Afghanistan will be to complete a successful transition to Afghan security forces by the end of 2014. I will evaluate… — Mitt Romney
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. — Morrie Schwartz
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him… — Raymond Chandler
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never… — David Kenyon Webster
Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you… — David Kenyon Webster
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. — Amos Oz

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