Above Ground Quotes

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. — Faith Hill

She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds. — Cassandra Clare

The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. — John Green

And in the summer the river didn't run at all above ground. — John Steinbeck

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. — William Shakespeare

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means. — Rudolf G. Binding

Any day above ground is a good one. — Donald E. Williams Jr.

Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

They are playing above the ground. — Ron Atkinson

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day. — Anthony Hopkins

Mist devils spun in the air, dispersed then reassembled, gyrating above the ground, vapor-gamboling. — J. Cameron McClain

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. — Robert Smithson

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's a realm above the trees
Where the lost are finally found
Touch your feathers to the breeze
And leave the ground. — Owl City

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead. — Homer

You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground. — Robert Kroese

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. — Carol Shields

Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground. — Anthony Horowitz

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground. — D.T. Suzuki

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten. — Charles Lindbergh

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground. — James Hunt

One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all. — Michael Flynn

My feet sink into the ground, and above me, the branches grow into one another, forming a kind of tunnel. — Veronica Roth

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music. — Ice Cube

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us. — Hannah

In a fleshy tomb I am buried above ground. — William Cowper

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies. — David Walton

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground. — Yoko Ono

Your mindset controls every result in your life ... Mindset matters most if you are above the ground and breathing — Tony Dovale

Rumor starts as a timid thing, But soon it covers the earth, and its voices ring, While its feet walk the ground and its head is above the clouds. — Virgil

I used to fly airplanes myself, so being above the ground doesn't worry me too much. — John Rhys-Davies

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that. — Pitbull

The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu

In a fleshly Tomb, I am Buried above ground. — William Cooper

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. — Black Elk

But most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light. — Karen Thompson Walker

She was my ground, my favorite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet — Salman Rushdie

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold. — Amanda Hocking

I could go above ground now and then to gather food and paper, and isn't that enough to live on? — Ally Condie