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

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

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

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

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

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Calvin Trillin

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

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

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

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

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore

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

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
Werner Heisenberg

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

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

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