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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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