Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.
Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't. ' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.
Any day above ground is a good one.
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins. ” “I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground. . . And so are you. So are we all.
It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing. . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.
When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.
One of the greatest possible sins would be to return to God the life which he has given us with our abilities undiscovered and our talents undeveloped an unutilized. One of Jesus most bitter rebukes was given to him who buried his talents in the ground.
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.
When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.
Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.
It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.
That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.
You think my kids just popped out of the ground?
Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.