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

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
Andy Rooney

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Marcel Proust

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.
Jim Carrey

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

Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers

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

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Louis L'Amour

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
Charles M. Schulz

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
Ralph Marston

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Eric Hoffer

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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