They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.
War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.
Immediately after 11 September, the U. S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror. ' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.
Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.
The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.
If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic. . . for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.