(1379 quotes found)
“How long should a man's legs be?Long enough to touch the ground.”
J. D. Salinger
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do”
Charles Dudley Warner
“The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.”
Zeno
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone bird. I am an iceberg. Everyday I float farther and farther out to sea. But that can't be. An iceberg feels no pain. An iceberg doesn't feel cold. I feel cold. I feel distant. There is no one. There is nothing. That's where I am. She won't look me in the eye anymore since I asked if I could kiss her. Even wanting turns her cold.”
Henry Rollins
“The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God”
Charles Hodge
“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round,And here I'm dancing on the groundAm I right-side-up or upside-down,And is this real or am I dreaming?”
Dave Matthews Band
“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
