Quotes with ground

  • 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!
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
  • And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
  • After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
  • What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
  • We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
  • Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
  • You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
  • But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
  • A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • A. W. Tozer Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Abba Eban A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Robert Henri A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • Bruce Willis After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • A. M. Klein And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,
    When reading in these treatises some weird
    Miracle, I turned a leaf and found
    A white hair fallen from my father's beard.
    Heirloom (1982)
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Barry Sanders Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Bliss Carman Art thou a hyacinth blossom The shepherds upon the hills Have trodden into the ground? Shall I not life thee?
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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