You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.
. . remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.
In less than twenty-five years. . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.
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.
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness.
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.
Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble. ) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.
We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.
May your past be the sound of your feet upon the ground.
So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag.