(1379 quotes found)
“Beat it into the ground”
Proverb
“A more empirically grounded, fact-based approach to environmental policymaking will require investments in data collection on a global level.”
Daniel Esty
“The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.”
William Shakespeare
“Cover a lot of ground”
“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”
John Barth
“Can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground”
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.”
John Henry Newman
“Don't want to cover old ground”
“I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.”
Virgil
