Quotes About Ground

She glanced down at the ground and the inert form of her brother. "What happened to Travis?" Mitch winced. "I hit him with the door after I tore it off. It was a total accident." "Marry me," she spouted before she could stop herself.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

We're tenting tonight               on the old camp ground;        Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.

on Ellingham's face, forcing him to look down and shield his eyes. He half crawled out of the boat onto the ground. "Open the door," the voice said. Ellingham pulled his keys from his

Could I really hope to find common ground with a party that increasingly seemed to consider opposition to me to be its unifying principle, the objective that superseded all others?

It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.

Why didn't you just come to my apartment?" He smiled. "Where you live is always where you are most vulnerable because it represents a possible choke point for an ambush. And I would not wish to surprise a man like you where he felt most vulnerable. Safer, I judged, to approach you on neutral ground, where you might even see me coming, ne?

meteoroid had hit with such force it melted the ground around it, making it look like foundry slag. The heat turned quartz intrusions in the bedrock into chunks of colored glass. The Dry Valleys We went on like this for hours, as though there was no being done with the astonishment landscapes might offer us, or to the potential for any seemingly inconsequential thing out there to startle and inform, or

Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground.

But the idea itself sprang out of a certain kind of lived experience--on the ground, as the activists still like to say. It came, in part, from seeing human beings buried in conditions that defiled both the dead and the living.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

An idea has an aim. It wants something. It posits a value structure. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now. It reduces the world to those things that aid or impede its realization, and it reduces everything else to irrelevance. An idea defines figure against ground. An idea is a personality, not a fact.

You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say "dig" with a straight face without referring to the process of using a tool to remove dirt from the ground.)

What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded. 'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.

Jaypaw would have bet a moon of searching the elders' fur for ticks that the squirrel Mousepaw caught had been on the ground.

No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school ground, anyway.

Flight simulators give me vertigo. I prefer to throw down with my feet on the ground." She pointed a thumb at herself. "You put me at the controls of a giant battle mech, I will crush my enemies and see them driven before me." I grinned. "What about the lamentations of their women?" "Oh yeah," she said, chuckling. "Their women lamentate all over the place. That goes without saying, doesn't it?

Despite Riley's efforts to protect his privacy on the ground, the Court said that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy from observation by a helicopter or a low-flying airplane.18

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

Let's listen to the people and find common ground to remove barriers to job creation.

I have laid a very basic ground rule for myself. I should be a favourite with the audience, they should love me, my role, my acting, appreciate my talent. I don't want to repeat any of my roles, ever.