Ground Quotes

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

Peace between leaders and peace on the ground will strengthen the interests of all.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

You don't have to hit perfect shots all the time here. The variety of shots you get to play, the shots you sometimes have to hit along the ground, it's just a lot of fun to me.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

Medicine grounds me, it centers me, that's why I continue to do it.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

He kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.

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.

A speaker said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

The lads really ran their socks into the ground.

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?