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Quotes About Ground

But this 'structural' or concrete a priori is neither a Kantian category nor even a Hegelian idea; it is the universal ground of sense=the sense funally, far fro, being an idea, is a ground. Philosophy seeks in the archeology of the ground, in the depth and not in the height (the ideas)...the ground in the literal sense: the earth.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The light is satisfied only in the innermost place, where no one dwells. It is within you even deeper than you are in yourself. It is the ground of simple silence that is motionless in itself. Yet from its stillness, all things move and all things receive their life, that they may live in accordance with this reason (vernunftecliche) and be conformed to it within themselves.
~ Meister Eckhart
Your vertical frame should be installed outside the box, so it sits on the ground. Aside from driving the concrete reinforcing bars (rebar) into the ground, and slipping the conduit over them, you could also attach the vertical frame to your box with pipe clamps on the side. This would give them even more stability.
~ Unknown
The snow had turned to glass, growing green and blue; a rose colour filled our eyes until they almost died. We stayed until we too felt that we too were metamorphosing into trees. We could feel the frost-cold roots beneath our feet, growing, binding us to to the ground.
~ Unknown
You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said.
~ Michael Buckley
It was the middle of the night, and Bingo couldn't sleep. The ground was hard, but he was used to that. . . .His blanket was dirty and smelled disgusting, but he was used to that too. A tune kept going through his head, and he couldn't get it out of his mind. It was the Wendels' victory song.
~ Unknown
One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.
~ Michael Flynn
In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.
~ Unknown
People shed their dead skin at a rate of forty thousand cells per minute. These dead cells form what we call a 'skin raft,' which floats on the air before settling to the ground, but they don't last long, even under ideal conditions, let alone in this wind.
~ Unknown
There's a strangeness in these hills that tells you not to pray to Jesus, he's not lord of this ground; drive on down to Blythe if that how you pray, Jesus and McDonald's have franchises down there.
~ Michael Ventura
The real passage occurs in the middle. Whatever direction determined by the swim, the ground lies dozens or hundreds of yards below the belly or miles behind and ahead. The voyager is alone. One must cross in order to know solitude, which is signaled by the disappearance of all reference points.
~ Michel Serres
For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.
~ Michelle Williams
As the 'circular' approach to sustainability begins to gather ground, we humans are finding ourselves within the circle, not without.
~ Unknown
I stared at the black scar on the ground in front of me. From the photographs I could work out exactly where her face had lain. I was surprised to see that a small purple veld flower had grown there. To me it was beautiful.
~ Unknown
Infants are put out on high ground.
~ Unknown
Metaphors that have the community's seal of approval roll off the tongue so readily that, by any yardstick, they are invariably thick on the ground.
~ Unknown
While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night,All seated on the ground,The angel of the Lord came down,And glory shone around.
~ Nahum Tate
Trouble was, the string tethering it to the ground was what kept the kite flying. Without its connection it would never stay aloft.
~ Nancy E. Turner
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
~ Napoleon Hill
Books. They tumbled from the bleeding sky like wounded birds. The spines snapping open and the pages fanning white. Black letters slipping off the slanted pages and falling, falling to the ground where they... Shatter.
~ Unknown
a break in the prairie, pulling back the ground cover to reveal the stark
~ Unknown
Now is the time And here is the place, 'Cause we lose these hours and casting blame When we should be saying grace. We can find a better way. We can stand on common ground. We can work this out between us before the sun goes down. We come together.
~ Unknown
This coffee tastes like mud! Well, it was ground this morning.
~ Old Vaudeville joke