Quotes with ground-glass

Quotes 61 till 80 of 191.

  • William Shakespeare I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Virgil I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Audie Murphy I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Anne Stevenson I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Emile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Abigail Van Buren If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas à Kempis If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • R. H. Hutton In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
    R. H. Hutton
     
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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
    Source: De Engelse patient (2011) 67
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Aberjhani In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.
    Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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