Quotes of: High-ground Keyword

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

Richard D. Zanuck

When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

Stephen Pagliuca

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

Cote de Pablo

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Stephen Hawking

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Michelle Williams

I learned the mechanics of how to fly a plane, but I never lifted a plane off the ground.

Adam Beach

I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.

Amos Oz

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

Virgil

Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault?

William Wordsworth

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

Frank Lampard

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Edgar Fiedler

I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were Dopey, Toothless, and Joe, the brain surgeons in charge of building maintenance. At least they were getting paid. I was...

Twisted

I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental...

T.C. Boyle

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

Carrie

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn’t good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

Great Listener Series Mute Women

Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation of drugged zombies.

The High Blood Pressure Hoax

I always thought high school was supposed to be a time for finding yourself, but I guess that's only if you fit into the mold people have made for you.

Beneath His Darkness

This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Levering School and Central High School in Philadelphia, to whom more is owed than can ever be repaid.

Bones of the Earth

A brick and blanket could be used to turn my words around like backwards high heels on my tongue .

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida