A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.
We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero. . . . The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness.
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.
Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible.
Relationships are a proving ground for love.
Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
[A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion. . . . Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
Some of us believe humanity should be in divine partnership with nature, some people believe that man has been given by God the right to have dominion over nature. But since even they say that we should be good stewards, that right there should be the common ground.
Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness. . . It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.
All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.