(1379 quotes found)
“Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.”
Casey Stengel
“Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium”
Cyril Connolly
“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”
Billy Wilder
“He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”
Zoroaster
“An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground”
Christopher Martin-Wieland
“Three jolly Farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the other would / Off the ground.”
Walter de La Mare
“Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / in a light fantastic round.”
John Milton
“Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected”
Marilyn French
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The lads ran their socks into the ground.”
Alex Ferguson
