Ground Quotes - page 2

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. (Charles Dudley Warner)
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. View quote
Louis L'Amour
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
Work at the same time upon water, sky, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. View quote
Camille Pissarro
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional. View quote
Henry James
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it till I am known, and do not want it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In Tetrad form, the artefact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. (Joseph Addison)
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. View quote
Joseph Addison
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. View quote
Alan Lightman
God, that dumping ground of our dreams. View quote
Jean Rostand
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. View quote
Don DeLillo
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. (Bertrand Russell)
Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary. View quote
Thomas Middleton
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. View quote
Francis Bacon
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off". View quote
Stephen King
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. View quote
Jonathan Swift