Quotes About Grounded

I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris...any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a Scorched Space policy. If we can't have it, neither can anyone else.

she certainly didn't nourish herself on promises, but was rooted in the here and now.

if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.

I have my family life and I think it's important to be able to shut the door and keep the door shut, and that keeps you grounded. You stay in reality.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'

I have three other siblings, so it's all very equal - even when I get a little cocky, which I usually do. My brother keeps me in a headlock. He says that I'm not a celebrity in this house. I think I'm really chilled out and grounded.

My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

One of nature's most healing gifts to us, though, is its reminder to us to stay grounded and connected to the natural cycles of life.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

sorry, Mr. McCoy," Sara Doolan sing-songed, sounding not the least bit sorry. "But, see, I broke curfew last night and my mom says I'm grounded tonight? Like, my boyfriend's car broke down and we couldn't get home? And now my mom's so pissed off? And she's grounded me?

On the rock of Christ I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

I went through the foot injuries, as well as other things, that have kept me grounded.

Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.

When things aren't right, I can overreact because of the fear of losing everything. The insecurity drives me, and helps keep my feet on the ground.

I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

Metaphysics, in my understanding, is the unity of knowledge and the meaning and orientation this unity gives to life. If this unity is the unity of knowledge, how can it be all that subjective? It is a faith grounded in knowledge.

One foot on Mount Olympus, the other in the kitty litter.

You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it's too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.

That is why she cannot be regarded as lying; for she does not presume that she knows the truth, and therefore she cannot be deliberately promulgating a proposition that she presumes to be false: Her statement is grounded neither in a belief that it is true, not, as a lie must be, in a belief that it is not true. It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth - this indifference to how things really are - that I regard as the essence of bullshit.

That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earth—firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.

What drew me to Cyborg was the tragic nature of his origins and how grounded he is in a reality that I recognise. As an actor, it really gave me a lot to chew on.