Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.
However hard a thing is thrown into the air, it always falls to the ground.
The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.
Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.
He who has been bitten by a snake is scared of a rope on the ground.
No matter how tall the tree is, its leaves will always fall to the ground.
Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.
The branch that bears the most fruit bends itself thankfully towards the ground.
Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in.
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.
They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.
Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.
Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.
If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
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.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.