Ground Quotes - page 13

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. (K.d. lang)
Remember the city, the city remember Where treasure is hidden under the ground The city, the city, always remember That's where the treasure will be found. View quote
Jeanne DuPrau
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent. View quote
James Cromwell
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. View quote
Carol Shields
Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea. View quote
Max Carver
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that. View quote
Scott McCloud
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground. View quote
Dave Navarro
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder. View quote
Nicolas Steno
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it. (Solomon Northup)
The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering. View quote
Paul Reiser
I would think Until I found Something I can never find; – Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind. View quote
James Stephens
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. View quote
Tom Brokaw
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground. View quote
Sammy Hagar
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. View quote
Alan Thicke
I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas. View quote
Alfred Kastler
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences. View quote
Abbe Pierre
I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating. View quote
Andy Summers
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. (Anne Stevenson)
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. View quote
Asa Gray
I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air. View quote
Audie Murphy
About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up. View quote
Adam Kinzinger
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground. View quote
Baldwin Spencer