Ground Quotes

3275 Ground quotes by 2232 unique authors

At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable… — Victor Hugo
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. — Rumi
Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your… — Angela Carter
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are… — Bruno Schulz
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger… — Yann Martel
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle… — Edmund Spenser
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. — J.R.R. Tolkien
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place… — Joshua Chamberlain
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.… — Franz Kafka
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to… — Franz Kafka
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings... — William Shakespeare
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only… — Haruki Murakami
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all… — Emily Bronte
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at… — Sara Teasdale
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it… — C.S. Lewis
Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very… — Banksy
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you… — Walt Whitman
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds?… — Rumi
Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach. — Mother Angelica
He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is… — Susanna Clarke
The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up… — C.S. Lewis

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