Top Ground Quotes
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler
When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall
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
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Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.
Peter Pace 
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Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.
Kit Bond
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams
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Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
Marvin Minsky
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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Maxwell Anderson
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury
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Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers
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People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.
Sarah Palin
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Popular Ground Authors
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