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Quotes About Grounds

For us, as players, I am concentrating on the game rather than worrying about the fans, but obviously, you do want the atmosphere - when you do go to certain grounds, it is difficult to play there when you have got the atmosphere, the fans are right on their side.
~ Kyle Walker
Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.
~ Sue Hubbell
Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
To make decisions "rationally," by some set of rules, means to base the decisions on some grounds of truth:
~ Steven Pinker
I have traveled so far and loved so much, and yet I am still following the Sun Trail, heading for my new hunting grounds. EXCERPT FROM WARRIORS: A VISION OF SHADOWS #1: THE APPRENTICE'S QUEST A new adventure begins for the warrior Clans.
~ Erin Hunter
No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school grounds, anyway. You
~ Ernest Cline
The Supreme Court ruled that the governor was not protected by absolute immunity, but could claim qualified immunity: "the existence of reasonable grounds for the belief formed at the time and in light of all the circumstances, coupled with good-faith belief, . . . affords a basis for qualified immunity of executive officers.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.
~ Haruki Murakami
The Higher Grounds Café is officially open for business!" she announced.
~ Max Lucado
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
~ Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
~ Bertrand Russell
I left him where he was and went down the hall to the kitchenette, where I picked up the coffeepot and filled it with water. I poured the water into the reservoir and then opened a packet of coffee, the grounds neatly sealed in a filter that I tucked into the basket. I flipped the switch and stood there until I could hear the gurgling begin.
~ Sue Grafton
By the time Brand Appleton reached the castle grounds, he had acquired a significant crowd. Never in the history of Toll had one man needed so many people to arrest him.
~ Frances Hardinge
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~ Frances Wright
She had another map of the grounds flattened on the desk and was showing a color-coordinated young couple that Simon would anachronistically call yuppies the "most arduous hiking trail on the property.
~ Harlan Coben
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Keep talking Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.' 'That's how I got in, sir.' 'Didn't we all.
~ Spike Milligan
Several people have now sued to reverse state regulations requiring them to attend AA on the grounds that these violate their religious freedom.)
~ Stanton Peele
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.
~ Michael Polanyi
That is the most extraordinary fact about Britain. It wants to be a garden. Flowers bloom in the unlikeliest places - on railway sidings and waste grounds where there is nothing beneath them but rubble and grit.
~ Bill Bryson
Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.
~ Tanith Lee
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.
~ Hugh Mackay
Tell the Queen that there's been a robin red-breast hanging about Kotir grounds. It flies down low and vanishes near the floor. Cludd thinks it might be something to do with those woodlanders. Now, I'm to say nothing to Fortunata or Ashleg... 'I must tell the Queen that a robin has seen Cludd hanging about. No, that's not right. I must tellt he robin taht Cludd has been hanging the Queen.
~ Brian Jacques
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
~ Monica Hesse