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You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground.
— Unknown
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
Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.
— Haruki Murakami
I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.
— Cassandra Clare
The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
— Ringo Starr
I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.
— Floyd Abrams
The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.
— Haruki Murakami
A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Anthony Trollope
I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.
— Nicole Kidman
It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.
— Eric Close
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
— Chogyam Trungpa
My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the ground it falls on.
— Lauren Groff
Much to their annoyance, Calvin refused to answer any of their questions. He remained on the ground, silently bleeding at them.
— Brian Cramer
I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
— Jay-Z
Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.
— Stephen Pagliuca
If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.
— Kelli O'Hara
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
— Henry Walter Bates
I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.
— John Kasich
The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above. — Lao-Tzu
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky.
— Helen Lowrie Marshall
For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
— Anne Edwards
When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
— Jesse Owens
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
To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead
— David Bowie
I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.
— Ryan Sheckler
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
His brow was on the floor
But then they found
A small hole in the ground
And let him down some more — David Thewlis
I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.
— Denzel Washington
So I need to lay down some ground rules."
"Rules for the use of the ground?" He's gazing out the window. "Am I still allowed to step on it? — Eva Morgan
"Rules for the use of the ground?" He's gazing out the window. "Am I still allowed to step on it? — Eva Morgan
Newt was sitting on the ground with Frypan and Minho, all three looking as if they were waiting for the end of the world.
— James Dashner
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
— Camille Paglia
Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
— Jack O'Brien
Under Florida's "stand your ground" law, it is legal to shoot anybody for any reason as long as you are standing on the ground.
— Dave Barry
That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground
— Neil Strauss
My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.
— C.S.E. Cooney
I almost never respect men. They're like flowers
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. — Barbara Kingsolver
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. — Barbara Kingsolver
My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
— Valerie Trierweiler
My cape caught fire. I dived to the sand and rolled on the ground to snuff the flames. So much for my grand entrance.
— Maria V. Snyder
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
— Wendell Berry
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
— Bent Saether
The best playing ground for a salesperson is on the field and not in his office " -
— Murtaza Ebrahim
This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.
— Craig Childs
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
And we will lie down on the ground and have conversations with the grasses and the flowers.
— Avijeet Das
You're a man, man. That means seeing two rocks on the ground that kind of look like tits will arouse you.
— S.A. Tawks
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
Don't look like a fool with your pants on the ground!
— Larry Platt
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
— H.L. Mencken
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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
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 am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
— Oprah Winfrey
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
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
It is the man on the ground with his rifle who ultimately wins the war.
— Bruce H. Norton
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
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
— Ellen Glasgow
Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.
— William Tyler
I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.
— Frank Lampard
I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes
Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.
— Gracie Allen
When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
— Elvis Costello
As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.
— Charlie Walker
You broke my wrist, you bitch."
"She's not the one crying on the ground, son. So who's the bitch? — Ellis Leigh
"She's not the one crying on the ground, son. So who's the bitch? — Ellis Leigh
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
— Della Reese
He says he'd like to kiss the ground you walk on-reminds me, did you wash them yesterday?- and after that you're his skivvy.
— Bertolt Brecht
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
— T. Boone Pickens
Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.
— Stephen King
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
— Norman Cousins
You just stood up to your mother ... I should think now you could take on the world.
— Elizabeth Strout
Dear Adam,
"Flying high is marvelous, staying on the ground is great. What is really tasteless is staying in between."
Love Daddy — Sameh Elsayed
"Flying high is marvelous, staying on the ground is great. What is really tasteless is staying in between."
Love Daddy — Sameh Elsayed
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
— Francois Rabelais
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You can see the city lights from there, spreading out below like stars on the ground.
— Ava Dellaira