Ground Quotes

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What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise… — Henry David Thoreau
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,… — Henry David Thoreau
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that… — Steven Millhauser
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists)… — Camille Paglia
Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground. — Mao Zedong
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or,… — Mao Zedong
As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul. — Charles Spurgeon
When a big tree falls, the ground shakes — Rajiv Gandhi
Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home. — Anodea Judith
I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up. — Jim Rogers
Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground,… — Levon Helm
A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or who to go around for he is likely… — Unknown Author
The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the… — George Elliott Clarke
I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly.… — Ronnie Wood
If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground. — Bradley Nowell
Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and… — Patrick Stump
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. — Guy Finley
Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam,… — Richard Stallman
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a… — Nelson A. Miles
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground. — Joss Whedon
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to… — Tom Turner
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with… — Shunryu Suzuki
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more… — Kenneth Patchen
Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has… — William J. Clinton
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with… — Joseph Campbell

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