#ground

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#anymore #backgrounds #believe #children #clever

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#attempt #believed #both #both sides #brave

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#fear #many #see #things #underground

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#garden #heaven #human #human life #life

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#destructive #get #grounded #lives #lost

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#directors #done #efforts #figuring #flight

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#counterfeit #even #fall #false #flowers

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#absolute freedom #anyone #best #best way #comics

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it. ↗

— Cedric the Entertainer

#been #changing #grounded #i #i love

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground. ↗

— Rick Danko

#every #every night #get #ground #into