Ground Quotes

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

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

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia.

I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

For some people, an event happens and they are thrown into a tabloid feeding ground.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

No ground gained was ever relinquished.