Ground Quotes

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

You don't have to hit perfect shots all the time here. The variety of shots you get to play, the shots you sometimes have to hit along the ground, it's just a lot of fun to me.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

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.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

No ground gained was ever relinquished.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.