Grounding Quotes

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet

Stupid, Children, Whole

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.
Ani DiFranco

Work, Time, Good

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch

Attitude, Travel, Able

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
Maureen O'Hara

Peace, Heritage, Brought

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
John Sununu

Business, Energy, Behind

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
James Dyson

Politics, Science, Technology

I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.
Courteney Cox

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
Alan Cumming

Life, Good, Dad

I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good.
Jane Siberry

Good, Fun, Whatever

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
Nicole Scherzinger

Life, Religion, Nothing

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
Jennifer Ellison

Good, Ballet, Craft

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
Georg Solti

Life, Work, Hard

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.
Shepard Smith

School, Rich, Sense

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
Marisa Tomei

Love, Night, Enjoy

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
Trofim Lysenko

Knowledge, Laws, Biological

Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
John Glover

Earth, Hands, Excuse

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Work, Medical, Become

I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
Frances O'Connor

Religion, Great, Give

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