Famous Quotes & Sayings

He was real nervous. I took off my jacket, put him on the ground and wrestled with him for about ten minutes. Then he mellowed out and went to work.

Donald Rumsfeld

Commanders on the ground are the ones that are making the recommendations,

Anything that touches the ground is a problem.

Melanie Mayron

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Europe's offer provides a middle ground around which WTO members should converge,

prepared to implement a phased and conditioned reduction of the Ground Safety Zone.

Mike Jackson

An instrument ground is sometimes referred to as an isolated ground.

Shane Warne

This ground has special memories for me. I have never lost a Test match here and there have been some pretty special individual moments for me here as well,

This instrument records ground motion in three different directions.

Donna Karan

They're very grounding kinds of shoes, and sexy at the same time.

They need someone who can hit the ground running.

Billie Armstrong

You say it to my face, you might be pickin' yourself off the ground

This is a project that we've been trying to get off the ground for some time now.

This is going to help us get off the ground on our professional signature-gathering campaign.

Muhammad Ali

You don't want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

Elijah Wood

It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here; it's fantastic, it's wonderful.

It was already on the ground when we got there,

It was real frustrating. Sometimes it seemed like I was getting up off the ground every play. And that turf was harder than I thought it'd be.

It was the first time I've been invited in from the ground floor.

Better an ounce from the ground than a pound from the roof

The suspect got on the ground as commanded, and they took him without incident,

The security at the time had been delegated back to the ground exiting point, ... We wanted to make sure the referees were in a secure position with a minute to go.

Herman Edwards

That's what we wanted, we wanted the shotgun. That's great, as long as it doesn't go on the ground. It went on the ground today.

Chris Carpenter

That's why I was getting all those ground balls. It's tough to elevate.

That's going to be the big bugaboo. We need to set ground rules about what land we should talk about and let the public know that we're not talking about parks or libraries.

We've got a lot of pipe in the ground on the railway and we're going to need more.

We want to give them solid grounding in biology, conservation and life skills.

The winds were just too strong and they kept us on the ground today.

The whole world, the whole nation, will be looking at New Hampshire in February, ... You have a unique opportunity to lay the ground work for a new era, a new millennium.

The school itself plays a big role. It's just a massive mixing ground for respiratory illness.

Stephen F. Lynch

To have no one on the ground is just inexcusable, sir.

When you patch potholes in wet weather, you might as well be patching with oatmeal. We have to wait until the ground dries up.

We've been spending a lot of time in the shop working on equipment. Everything is spit-shined and ready to go, but there's nowhere to go because the ground is so wet.