Character Quote by Graham Swift

You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

— Kate Burton

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

— Donnie Wahlberg

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

— Erma Bombeck

One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water... I always felt that once you…

— Dick Button

“I’m treading very carefully on glass here, and I’m not sure how long it will last before I lose concentrating and cut my foot.”

— Jaimie Roberts

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

— James Weldon Johnson

“There is not, perhaps, a more painful exercise of the mind than that of treading, with weary and impatient pace, the entire round of…

— Anonymous

As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves a course…

— Thomas Huxley

And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God.…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every…

— Washington Irving

It takes five years for a willing person's mind to change. Have patience with yourself and others when treading in an area protected by…

— Garrett Hardin