It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
I spent a part of. . . 1923 with. . . Dr. W. W. Keen. . . In the. . Civil War. . . . he was a surgeon. . . and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he had operated. . . . He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground. That was the accepted practice at the time.
I want a military funeral when I diethe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground. . . . It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anythingsomething I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war. . . . The unqualified approval of my community.
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events
Marijuana is like sex. If I don't do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.
If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.
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.
I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.
Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.
Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
. . . skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
If you're only ten feet above, then you're better than when you're on the ground.
After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto. . . we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.