I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
we can only flourish when we are truly grounded in self. keep that in mind when journeying.
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.
That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music h...
For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance. It is drawn with great care, all sorts of precaution...
