Ground Quotes

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. View quote
Tom Clancy
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground. View quote
John Lennon
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth. View quote
Giambattista Vico
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. View quote
Thomas Malthus
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail, none of which is easy ! View quote
Anne, Princess Royal
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. (Alexander Pope)
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. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
He who slings mud generally loses ground. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. View quote
David Icke
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your eyes on the stars, keep your feet on the ground. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground. View quote
Serge Lang
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens. View quote
Desmond Tutu
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. View quote
Billy Wilder
Daisies are like sunshine to the ground. (Drew Barrymore)
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. View quote
James Joyce
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're doing every day. View quote
Marcus Buckingham
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
📖 Ground Proverbs