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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. — B.B. King

the astronaut David R. Scott performed the feather and lead weight experiment and found that indeed they did hit the ground at the same time. — Stephen Hawking

Having someone prancing around with an active chain saw while the ground shifted seemed spectacularly unwise. — Daniel O'Malley

You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot. — Ilona Andrews

The only ground of God's love is his love. — Thomas Brooks

I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs. — Roman Polanski

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one. — Jack Ma

You can't ground us. We're homeless," Daphne said. — Michael Buckley

Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground. — Francois Rabelais

People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground. — Margaret Keane

The ground is my ocean, I'm the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim. — Carlos Machado

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. — Gertrude Jekyll

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. — Haruki Murakami

The habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago

Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart. — Lauren DeStefano

Sweetheart, my father and I have put more ghosts in the ground than you can count. — Kendare Blake

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy. — Eric Close

There is no word for time.
Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground. — Anne Sexton

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. — Ralph Marston

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling. — Sun Tzu

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure. — Pico Iyer

body to the ground. Though — Eric Wilder

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves. — Joe Miller

Nothing beats that moment of revelation when shyness loses ground to boldness, and quiet moans turn into squeals and swearing. — Paulo Coelho

Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. — Allan Lokos

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned. — Bo Belinsky

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around. — Muhammad Ali

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything. — Terence McKenna

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills. — Sheila Ballantyne

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground. — Richard Bach

With the fire crackling beside them, he placed his hand behind her head, and lowered her to the ground. — Kass Morgan

I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only — Ursula K. Le Guin

And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live. — Miguel Syjuco

There is no room in this philosophy for a middle ground, or a series of gradations, between the passive and aggressive status. Many, — Benjamin Graham

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater

Love traveled, it ran, it covered ground, eager to see more, do more. It was two people keeping pace with each other. — Adi Alsaid

If you'd wanted to get married with your feet on the ground, then you should have said something. — Julie Garwood

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time rolling on the ground with men who think a stiffy represents personal growth. — Janet Evanovich

How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers. — Michael Moore

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. — George Orwell

I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground. — Elton John

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence. — Rumi

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. — Alan Cohen

I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time. — Lady Gaga

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot. — Amartya Sen

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment. — Lorna Jackie Wilson

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security — M T Anderson

The legends lie cradled in the seagulls call, and the promise they made are ground beneath the sadist's fall. — Jethro Tull

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan

If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground — Imran Khan

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z

Make today's solid ground out of yesterday's quicksand. — Mos Def

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

Today education has become a training ground for competition. — Parker J. Palmer

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart. — Bruce Springsteen

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. — Frank Lampard

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!"
"I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy. — L.J.Smith

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground. — David Michod

In a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that. — Thomas Ligotti

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors. — Ezra Klein

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. — Josh Billings

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. — Henrik Ibsen

The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If I see any man dipping toward the ground in your vicinity, I shall punt him out the door," Trent promised. "I — Eloisa James

Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back. — Captain Chief

I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes

The cosmetic industry seems to be a wholesale dumping ground for just about every single type of chemical that exists. — David Wolfe

Seeing America slowly was, in a way, like eating slow food-I wasn't covering much ground in a single day, but I was digesting a lot more. — Rinker Buck

Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other. — Tom Robbins

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground. — Christopher Marlowe

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic. — Steve Erickson

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. — Charles Hodge

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

You're only powerless if you choose to be, no matter how many chains tie you to the ground. — Danyelle Leafty

When it comes to your relationships, don't burn the bridge. When it comes to making career/brand shift, burn the bridge to the ground. — Assegid Habtewold

It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war. — Bruce H. Norton

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground. — Ezra Koenig

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. — Gerald Raftery

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

Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. — Jonathan Renshaw

It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes skin to ground [is] the most comforting place; nowhere to go but up. — Tabitha Vohn

You cannot life another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. — Harold B. Lee

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down. — Patrick Wolf

Intelligence'?" repeated Magorian, as Bane and several others roared with rage and pawed the ground. "We consider that a great insult, human! — J.K. Rowling

I should love to see a ground-glass blue ocean — Julia Quinn

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood — Seth Grahame-Smith

There's no remaking reality ... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way. — Philip Roth

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there. — Gillian Jacobs

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you. — Reid Hoffman

G'Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away. — J. Michael Straczynski

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. — Dean Koontz

A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference. — Fred Reed

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ... — Ellen Glasgow