Ground Quotes

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment - I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I'm on to the next thing. I don't want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

All too soon this body will lie on the ground, cast aside, deprived of consciousness, like a useless scrap of wood.

Stand on middle ground and hold the ship level and steady.

I shall endeavor to take the ground I deem most just to the North, the East, the West, the South, and the whole country.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.