Quotes About Ground

Locke struggled to keep his head clear; the combination of nervous excitement and fatigue always made him feel as though he was sliding along an inch or two above the ground, his feet not quite reaching all the way down.

Q: What do you call a cow with no legs? A: Ground beef.

Did you ever hear tell,' said Jimmy Farrell, 'of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin? White skulls and black skulls and yellow skulls, and some with full teeth, and some haven't only but one,' and compounded history in the pan of 'an old Dane, maybe, was drowned in the Flood.' My words lick around cobbled quays, go hunting lightly as pampooties over the skull-capped ground. -Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces

They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure, gold under gravel, gone to earth, as useless to men now as it ever was.

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there.

There was rain like a ghost you could walk through. Almost dry when it hit the ground.

Certainly since the Middle Ages we have covered a lot of (medical) ground, gathered an enormous quantity of knowledge and as a result we have so much knowledge that we reach the point of being able to connect the available knowledge, bringing it together. This would foster a deeper insight of the human body and be helpful to develop an overview of the body. The connectivity of knowledge is what this book is about.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

It is only when the question ceases to be identified with the subject-verb-predicate structure of grammar, and is recognized within its original ground, within existence itself, that we can start looking for an answer. But such an answer will not be restricted to the confinements of language; it too must be revealed within an existential structure.

But he's proceeding at his own pace. That's the beauty of this project, of course. Johnnie is autonomous. Now that he's up there, he doesn't need anything from the ground. Since he and his sons won't cost us another dime, this is actually a low-budget project." Joan thought, Sons?

The Substrate which lay under the whole world.

Matter is the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God as well, are just words that express the wondrous results of neuronal complexity.

Let this ground be seeded with salt, so that no stalk of corn, or stalk of wheat shall ever grow. Cursed be the children of this ground, and cursed be their loins. Also cursed be their hams and hocks. Hail Marry full of grace, let us blow this goddamn place.

Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.

If you only knew all the love that I found, it's hard to keep my soul on the ground.

I remember staring up at the stars, feeling myself disappear into their infinite depths as the ground gently swayed and lurched around me like the deck of a huge ship.

Recuerdo haber mirado las estrellas, sentirme desaparecer en esa profundidad infinita, mientras el suelo se tambaleaba con dulzura

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

didn't need to stay on the ground like an apprentice with kit-fluff still behind his ears.

Locating a bit of twig on the ground, he snatched it up behind Mousefur's back and cracked it in his teeth. "That's one flea you don't need to worry about," he meowed.

Above them, the eagle folded its wings and started to drop toward the ground. "Birchkit!" Ferncloud's shriek tore through the air.

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