Ground Quotes

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.