One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.
Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.
It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it.
Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
God, what pathetic creatures had inherited the earth, to walk a little while with their eyes upon the stars and turn their gaze too soon upon the ground that held their feet!
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance.
If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping
No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
