Ground Quotes

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Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of… — Dave Barry
After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat.… — Richie Ashburn
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other… — John C. Calhoun
Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of… — Cornell Woolrich
I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not,… — John Knox
So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. I’m feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your… — Missy Higgins
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't… — Ron Chernow
I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in… — Eudora Welty
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility — Jonathan Mayhew
Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground. — Meister Eckhart
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. — Steve House
I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set… — Tayari Jones
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and… — Ntozake Shange
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism — Nancy Hartsock
I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground. — Leonard Ravenhill
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground. — Ernest Shackleton
We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and… — Christiane Amanpour
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two. — Warren Spahn
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of… — Mark Z. Jacobson
The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is… — Matt Mickiewicz
Once during the mission I was asked by ground control what I could see. "What do I see?" I replied. "Half a world to the… — Unknown Author
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months… — Anna Quindlen
Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of… — Dara Torres
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly… — Philip Gibbs

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