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Quotes About Ground

He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
these ideas are far more intuitive and empirically rooted than often assumed. Working from the ground up helps to make this clear.
~ Julia Annas
He ground his teeth and slapped some slop down into a pile. The stench was beyond overwhelming. "I thought you said pigs are clean." "Cleaner than people usually think, but not as clean as you and I." She looked at his messy boots, amusement dancing in her gray eyes. "Well, usually.
~ Julia Quinn
I think mockumentaries are such well-trodden grounds for comedies. It has been done a lot, but it is because of that informal nature, it's such a fertile ground to be funny.
~ Natasia Demetriou
There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.
~ Mark V. Hurd
In surrendering to our deepest fears, we put ourselves in touch with the fundamental awareness of just being—the true ground that is always available to us.
~ Ezra Bayda
depressions in the ground." "I'll mark
~ Faye Kellerman
My advice on competition is always to ensure that you want to fight, and ought to fight on a larger competitor's ground.
~ Felix Dennis
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
~ Billy Corgan
Christians, saints of God, pray that the dew of heaven may fall on earth's dry thirsty ground, and that righteousness may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
~ Billy Graham
In this place, amid sorrow and shame, his own life and the tragic history of his country met. Nothing spoke to him of himself as much as these remains scattered on the naked ground.
~ Boubacar Boris Diop
Patrick—if it is indeed Patrick—is still on the ground gasping for air as I make my arrival. I stop, spread my arms, and offer them my most winning smile. The three thugs stare at me as though I am a museum piece that they can't comprehend. Melon Shirt takes one step toward me. "Who the fuck are you?" I am still smiling. "You should leave now." Melon
~ Harlan Coben
Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.
~ Harold G. Moore
He was prodding her. Let him. They were on safe ground. "Well, in trying to satisfy one amendment, it looks like they rubbed out another one. The Tenth. It's only a small amendment, only one sentence long, but it seemed to be the one that meant the most, somehow.
~ Harper Lee
Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
~ Haruki Murakami
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
~ Haruki Murakami
dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.
~ Haruki Murakami
Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.
~ Haruki Murakami
too many trivial projects are like seeds sown on stony ground—they might sprout, but they do not take root and grow into anything useful.
~ Harvard Business School Press
I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we didn't really think that way at the time. But there is common ground. And they both have horses - I liked that, obviously.
~ Russell Crowe
WWE is my domain, my yard.
~ The Undertaker
In the division, yeah, I believe I have the best ground game.
~ Charles Oliveira
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
~ Sharon Gless