Ground Quotes
3275 Ground quotes by 2232 unique authors
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You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by…
— Haruki Murakami
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You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To…
— John O'Donohue
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She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted…
— Markus Zusak
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Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones;…
— Margaret Atwood
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For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall…
— Virginia Woolf
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Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.
— Winston Churchill
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Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they…
— Pete Wentz
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But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm…
— Charles Frazier
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Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught…
— Hillary Clinton
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There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And…
— Bob Dylan
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my…
— Rick Riordan
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Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.
— Janet Fitch
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The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
— Christina Rossetti
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You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it…
— Harold B. Lee
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Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going…
— William S. Burroughs
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Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say…
— Edward P. Jones
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.…
— Rumi
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I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
— Mark Haddon
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...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.
— Jose Saramago
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