(1379 quotes found)
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
Compton MacKenzie Sr.
“You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”
Peace Pilgrim
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”
Dante Alighieri
“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
““The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.””
Carlos Castaneda
“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”
Wendell Berry
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”
William Shakespeare
“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors or strong its weapons.”
Cheyenne Proverb
