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Ground control to Major Tom. -- David Bowie
Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence -- Rumi
Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible. -- Sun Tzu
Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero. -- Richard Curtis
Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. -- Sun Tzu
Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew. -- Jon Glaser
If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I'm Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground. -- Lewis Grizzard
Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye -- Wild Bill Hickok
Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground. -- Peter Travers
Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -- James Beard
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. -- Douglas Adams
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. -- Arthur Helps
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on. -- Scott Weiland
I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. -- Ignatius of Antioch
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. -- Henry Rollins
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. -- Arthur Helps
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. -- Samuel Butler
Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. -- Paulo Coelho
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services. -- Bayard Rustin
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. -- Josh Billings
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood. -- Alice Oswald
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. -- Wilfred Burchett
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it. -- John Hancock
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. -- Charlie Sheen
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. -- Tony Blair
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. -- Cecil Rhodes
Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. -- Johnny Isakson
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
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed. -- Aristotle
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! -- Faith Hill
I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures. -- Pierce Brosnan
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. -- Garrison Keillor
History is biology's dumping ground -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They are playing above the ground. -- Ron Atkinson
No ground gained was ever relinquished. -- Matthew B. Ridgway
Consciousness is the ground of Being. -- Amit Goswami
Truth never lost ground by enquiry. -- William Penn
The living sinners on deadly ground. -- Toba Beta
He who sling mud, lose ground. -- Confucius
Take more time, cover less ground. -- Thomas Merton
Life has very little even ground. -- Nora Roberts
He who slings mud loses ground. -- Gautama Buddha
Virtue lies in the middle ground. -- Jose Rizal
God, that dumping ground of our dreams. -- Jean Rostand
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. -- Martha Graham
Daisies are like sunshine to the ground. -- Drew Barrymore
He who slings mud generally loses ground. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
There is a middle ground in things. -- Horace
Do your homework and stand your ground. -- Peter Bart
Aim at the ground, you'll never miss. -- Kristine Thomas
Illness is the proving ground of friendship. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Relationships are a proving ground for love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground. -- Jesse Jackson
To remain static is to lose ground. -- David Packard
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness. -- Philip James Bailey
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground. -- Oscar Wilde
Our spirituality is the ground of our being. -- Paul Tillich
Any day you wake up and the ground -- C.C. DeVille
That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths. -- Chuck Klosterman
Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Self confidence is the ground stone of success -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground. -- Mao Zedong
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground. -- Cormac McCarthy
Our whole society's a training ground for addicts. -- Tim Tharp
Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand. -- Mos Def
You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said. -- Michael Buckley
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground. -- Christina Rossetti
When a big tree falls, the ground shakes -- Rajiv Gandhi
I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on. -- Dick Cheney
You can't keep a squirrel on the ground. -- Mary Lasswell
Our actions are the ground we walk on. -- Mandy Patinkin
I'm always trying to swim to new ground. -- PJ Harvey
I live an idle burden to the ground. -- Homer
Between two stools one sits on the ground. -- Francois Rabelais
Born on the ground. Live in the air! -- Armin Houman
Any day above ground is a good one. -- Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease. -- Rod Parsley
It appears that the ground of being which underlies -- Alexei Panshin
Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth. -- Julia Cameron
Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground. -- Marty Rubin
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. -- Edmund Burke
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. -- James Bryant Conant
Make your race a playground, not a proving ground. -- Lauren Fleshman
Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness. -- Surya Das
Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that. -- Pitbull
Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence. -- Amit Goswami
The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground. -- Harry Hay
Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground. -- Stephen King
Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable. -- Winston Churchill
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. -- John Bevere
It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. -- Mollie Marti
Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples! -- Rick Riordan
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. -- Michelle Malkin
In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers. -- Hoagy Carmichael
An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. -- Guy Finley
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes. -- Tracy Morgan
The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
If you lose direction, go to a higher ground. -- Toba Beta
I'll stand my ground and I won't back down... -- Tom Petty
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Let's not grow with our roots in the ground. -- Criss Jami
A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef. -- Mitch Hedberg
Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. -- Mitch Albom
The lads really ran their socks into the ground. -- Alex Ferguson
When the ground starts moving, all bets are off. -- Joan Didion
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground. -- William Cowper
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground. -- George Herbert
The only ground of God's love is his love. -- Thomas Brooks
I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground. -- Stevie Wonder
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I like to keep my wheels on the ground. -- Marianne Vos
You have to be tough and stand your ground. -- Dan Welch
Even if we remain flexible, we need ground rules. -- Horst Seehofer
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Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm. -- Juvenal

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