Ground Quotes - page 6

What an obituary. When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me.”. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. View quote
George Washington
I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where. View quote
George Washington
A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
You know they call corn-on-the-cob "corn-on-the-cob," right? But that's how it comes out of the ground, man. They should call that "corn", and they should call every other version "corn-off-the-cob." It's not like if you cut off my arm you would call my arm "Mitch", but then reattach it and call it "Mitch-all-together." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good. View quote
George Santayana
Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground? View quote
Andrea Dworkin
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd. View quote
Paul Keating
It was one to three football fields in length. It was massive, about 300 feet above the ground. It had three lights on the points of its triangle and a large red light beneath. View quote
Steven M. Greer
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved. (Alfred Jules Ayer)
I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy. View quote
Sarah Grimké
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man's greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. ... Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal. View quote
Camille Paglia
The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them. View quote
Camille Paglia
Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground. View quote
Gracie Allen
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. View quote
Bell hooks
The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. View quote
Eric Rücker Eddison
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God. View quote
Felicia Hemans
For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again. [...] Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats. (Lee Iacocca)
If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his "human right." View quote
Murray Rothbard
Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. View quote
Laurell K. Hamilton
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand. View quote
Nhat Hanh