Ground Floor Quotes

What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor? — Joe Abercrombie

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

For years the tears fell
without touching the ground.
On this night they hit the floor. — Mary Ruefle

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. — Amos Oz

Inkblot shadows of the canopy swayed and rolled on the forest floor in the cloudy light, almost as if the ground itself was moving. — Tony DiTerlizzi

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. — T. Boone Pickens

He'd been let down so often
His brow was on the floor
But then they found
A small hole in the ground
And let him down some more — David Thewlis

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.
We were about to become cigarettes. — Ruta Sepetys

This was indeed a merciful coincidence, was it not, that at the moment of Watt's losing sight of the ground floor, he lost interest in it also. — Samuel Beckett

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. — Alan Chadwick

As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight away. We must start on the ground floor. — Sachin Tendulkar