Ground Quotes

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein

Honor, Turn, Forever

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

Life, Work, Family

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Buddha

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

Everybody, Six, Loves

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Liberty, Progress

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

Eyes, Keep, Stars

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Miss

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
Stephen King

Life, Family, God

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Future, True, Problem

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

Work, Working, Whole

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

Nature, Moral, Against

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
Marilyn Monroe

Work, Working, Put

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba

Same, Last, House

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Poetry, Sorry

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

Food, Care, Greatest

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.
Charlie Sheen

Funny, Remember, Big

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

May, Walk, Conduct

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey

Shoes, Feet, Wear

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore Roosevelt

Evil, Expedience, Justified

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey

Down, Different, Fall

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
Barack Obama

End, Focus, America

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams

Learning, Yourself, Miss

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.
Ron Paul

Time, Hard, Person

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken

Keep, Both, Sit

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Heart, Together

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Yourself, Heart, Human

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas Paine

Enemy, Battle, Same

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass

Men, Freedom, Favor

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke

Today, Yesterday, Mighty

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