#ground

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

#battleground #both #pakistan #sense #some

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#any #brothers #feet #ground #guys

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.' ↗

— Celeste Holm

#ever #family #grounded #met #most

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#beat #better #boxing #business #chewed

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. ↗

— Maya Lin

#casting #dad #dean #fine #fine arts

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. ↗

— Susan Lucci

#both #descent #different #different backgrounds #extremely

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#back #bowed #burden #centuries #emptiness

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ↗

— Yann Martel

#art #background #beyond #bounds #certainly

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#being #flat #friend #getting #great

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.' ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#commander #ever #going #ground #guys