Ground Quotes

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

I am a very committed person when it comes to finding common ground.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.

I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

All the best movies are the ones that are cut from a more middle ground.

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.

Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.