I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
He who slings mud loses ground.
People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.
I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?
As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.
Within an hour I can be at the ocean, the forest, the mountains in San Francisco. . . But really, I fell in love with the city the first time I came out here in 2003. In addition to the natural beauty, this is ground zero for the food justice movement.
He's fantastic on the ground but obviously he is very tall. (on Peter Crouch)
I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.
It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.
Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.