Ground Quotes

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[Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the… — David S. Broder
Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general. — Glenn Reynolds
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down… — Barbara Johnson
It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another. — Dag Hammarskjold
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On… — Robert Frost
But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made… — Mark Twain
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. — Unknown Author
In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic… — Louise Mensch
With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot… — J.R. Miller
"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is… — Carlos Castaneda
There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned — Henry Timrod
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools. — Francois Rabelais
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to… — Henry David Thoreau
The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before.… — Elie Wiesel
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but… — Eyedea
I'm falling, but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile. — Eyedea
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat… — William Shakespeare
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded,… — Bill Watterson
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… — Wallace Stevens
I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or, more… — Amanda Lindhout
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him. — Alexander Smith

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