#ground

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#buddy #built #crashed #feet #first

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. ↗

— Nina Simone

#aside #bought #dream #feet #gown

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#falls #ground #heart #kind #love

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#certain #comes #grounding #i #i think

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people. ↗

— Georg Solti

#discipline #gave #grounding #hard #hard work

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#between #difference #fade #into #live

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

#claim #constant #feminine #ground #implicit

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#background #because #came #cared #education

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#anyway #back #bad #down #everyone

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#although #any #blocks #could #exposed