#ground

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#even #harder #makes #poor #who

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. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#away #comfortable #feeling #fly #ground

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

— Virgil

#his #like #rock #sea #stands

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#get #mainstream #mainstream media #material #media

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #desk #dinner #dinner party #get

I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#communities #cooperation #down #get #ground

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

— Scott Weiland

#been #break #gets #ground #harder

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#coloring #emerges #every #explicitly #imaginative

After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#another #did #die #die hard #first