#ground

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#get #ground #hill #i #off

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#language #poetry #pressured #resilient #simply

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#charge #come #coming #friends #funny

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#because #class background #experienced #going #having

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#i #know #new #new york #saying

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#around #everyone #grounded #keeping #me

When we separated, I did not want to get in a slugfest. I had to take the high ground. ↗

— Marla Maples

#get #ground #had #high #high ground

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. ↗

— William James

#cannot #dim #doing #know #mind

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on. ↗

— LL Cool J

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