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"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Sometimes, big trees grow out of acorns. I think I heard that from a squirrel." »Jerry Coleman
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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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"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." »Millicent Fenwick
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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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"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence." »George Eliot
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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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"Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"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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"When you sling mud, you lose ground." »Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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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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"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 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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"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." »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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"The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off." »Ringo Starr
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"Food is our common ground, a universal experience." »James Beard
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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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""My heart lays on the ground, hopeing one day you will be there to pick it up"" »Brandon T. Smith
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"Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true." »Bertrand Russell
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"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth." »Francis Bacon
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