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"No sensible man watches his feet hit the ground. He looks ahead to see what kind of ground they'll hit next." »Ernest Haycox
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"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know." »Su Shih
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"I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid." »Jed Seidel
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"When you sling mud, you lose ground." »Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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"As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!" »Amelia Earhart
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"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground...." »Unknown
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"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Virtue lies in the middle ground." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The ground that a good man treads is hallowed." »Johann von Goethe
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"A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground." »Anonymous
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"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Fly so high with my feet never leaving the ground." »John A. Carter
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"Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off." »Ringo Starr
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"Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." »James Beard
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""My heart lays on the ground, hopeing one day you will be there to pick it up"" »Brandon T. Smith
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"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God." »Charles Hodge
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"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth." »Francis Bacon
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"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
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"Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true." »Bertrand Russell
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"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." »Stanislaw Lec
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"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." »Thomas Overbury
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