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«If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.»
Author: Abigail Van Buren
| About:
Children,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
ground, shouldered, shoulders, shoulder in
«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
agitation, cropped, crops, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, favor, favoring, ground, lightning, like thunder, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing, rain, struggle, thunder, thundered, thundering
«Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence»
Author: George Jacob Holyoake
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
atheism, compels, deprives, existence, ground, superstition, theism
«Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground»
Author: Ralph Marston
| About:
Day,
Goals
| Keywords:
additional, drifted, drifting, drifts, drift away, ground, regain, regained, regaining, regains, wasting away
«He who slings mud generally loses ground.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
generally, ground, loses, mud, slings, slung
«But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
above, ADD, brave, consecrate, consecrated, consecrates, consecrating, dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, detract, detracting, detracts, ground, hallow, hallows, larger, poor, struggled, The Dead Man
«Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
back off, birds, every year, get off the ground, ground, heads, head off, mucked, muck about, nastier, nastiest, nasty, plants, spring
«And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
barren, barrens, boned, bones, cover, Death of, God of death, ground, kings, model, modeled, Model I, Model T, paste, pasted, sake, serves, stories, Telling Stories, tells a story