Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

We center backs had to cover a lot of ground, and we had to be very physical with the opposing strikers.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

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

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.

Education needs to be linked with life and should take into count the ground situation in different parts of India.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

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