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When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper... Every other dancer in the company was equally suspect (Ground Quotes)
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky (Ground Quotes)
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be be under it, inspiring the cabbages (Ground Quotes)
Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me (Ground Quotes)
When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up (Ground Quotes)
I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men (Ground Quotes)
The redbreast oft, at evening hours, shall kindly lend his little aid, with hoary moss, and gathered flowers, to deck the ground where thou art laid (Ground Quotes)
Everything dies, and on this spring morning, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seem to hear from every point of the compass the heavy step of men who carry a corpse to its burial (Ground Quotes)
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground (Ground Quotes)
Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has common sense on the ground floor (Ground Quotes)
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward (Ground Quotes)
The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others (Ground Quotes)
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again (Ground Quotes)
O boys, who pluck the flowers and strawberries springing from the ground, flee hence; a cold snake likes hidden in the grass (Ground Quotes)
The world could not exist if it were not simple. This ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again (Ground Quotes)
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving (Ground Quotes)
The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless (Ground Quotes)
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, and mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground (Ground Quotes)
Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete (Ground Quotes)
Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing (Ground Quotes)
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe (Ground Quotes)
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts (Ground Quotes)
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay (Ground Quotes)
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, the only good belonging to him is under ground (Ground Quotes)
The eyes of spring, so azure, are peeping from the ground; they are the darling violets, that I in nosegays bound (Ground Quotes)
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, if they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground (Ground Quotes)
No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it, but it will not be through her (Ground Quotes)
From all the misty morning air, there comes a summer sound, a murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and ground. The birds they sing upon the wing, the pigeons bill and coo (Ground Quotes)
Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold (Ground Quotes)
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy (Ground Quotes)