Quotes About Ground

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

I'm not sure if [Hillary Clinton] means it or not. But she says no boots on the ground. She has taken a tremendous - I mean, that's really giving strength to the enemy.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparent. Monte

Importa mucho conocer el terreno que pisamos

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

Dogman and Dow, Tul and Grim, West and Pike. Six of them, stood in a circle and looking down at two piles of cold earth. Below in the valley, the Union were busy burying their own dead, Dogman had seen it. Hundreds of 'em, in pits for a dozen each. It was a bad day for men, all in all, and a good one for the ground. Always the way, after a battle. Only the ground wins. Shivers

Back to the mud with you, Forley. We're the poorer, and the ground's the richer for it.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

when the staff was off duty and we Liars were alone on the island, the four of us did what we were afraid to do. We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

New York, New York,A helluva town.The Bronx is up and the Battery's down,And people ride in a hole in the ground.New York, New York,It's a helluva town!

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Monkey in the tree,Lion on the ground.Monkey kept on signifyingBut he didn't come down.

And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

There was, she was learning, strength hidden at the center of weakness, ground at the bottom of the deepest pit.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

MMA is not jiu-jitsu. MMA is not boxing. MMA is not wrestling. It's a different kind of style of punching and wrestling and grappling on the ground.

I'm sick of pundits. Don't get me wrong. I love the guests I have on every day. I love their energy and smarts and sass. But I'm sick of pundits because they don't always have their ears to the ground.

The air is full of sounds; the sky of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered with hints…So wrote Emerson and he is right. The world

Full moon calls thee-- Shai-hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is round-- Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.