grounds Quotes

I grew up playing in the schoolyard with the boy, and on the side of the grounds my dad coached on. I have a lot of fond memories.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

For us, as players, I am concentrating on the game rather than worrying about the fans, but obviously, you do want the atmosphere - when you do go to certain grounds, it is difficult to play there when you have got the atmosphere, the fans are right on their side.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.