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

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams

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

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Desmond Tutu

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Erwin Rommel

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph Addison

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
George Santayana

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
James Joyce

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Virgil

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
Joe E. Lewis

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
Denzel Washington

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

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

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.
Ken Kesey

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Black Elk

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri