You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today. I believe in what I do beyond a shadow of a doubt. I gave my word to this tree and to all the people that my feet would not touch the ground until I had done everything in my power to make the world aware of this problem and to stop the destruction.
[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.
As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.
. . . skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.
First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.
He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.
I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.