For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

-Addison,Joseph
  A Letter from Italy.

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. He who is lying on the ground has nowhere to fall.

-Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'
  Liber Parabolarum, ch.2, l.18.

For the normal business of living man is most at ease on the ground.

-Allsop, (Harold) Bruce
  A Modern Theory of  Architecture.

Lytle hwile leof beoth grene thonne hie eft fealewiath, feallath on eorthan and forweorniath weorthiath to duste. For a little while the leaves are green. Then they turn yellow, fall to the ground, and perish, turning to dust.

-Anonymous
c.900  Second Dialogue of Solomon and Saturn, l.136^8.

Le Poe'  te est semblable au prince des nue¤  es Qui hante la tempe"  te et se rit de l'archer; Exile¤   sur le sol au milieu des hue¤  es, Ses ailes de ge¤  ant l'empe"  chent de marcher. The Poet is like that prince of the clouds Who haunts the storms and laughs at the archer; Exiled to the ground in the midst of jeers, Hisgiant wings prevent him from walking.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'L'Albatros'ö'Spleen et ide¤  al', no.2.

And unto Adam he said,Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which Icommandedthee, saying,Thoushalt noteatof it: cursed istheground for thysake; insorrowshaltthoueat of it all the days of thy life.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 3:17.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shall return.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 3:19.

And the L God said,Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:Therefore the L God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the tree of life.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis 3:21^4.

   And he said,Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Exodus 3:5.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 38:9.

He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha, and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 39:24^5.

  Unrecorded, unrenowned, Men from whom my ways begin, Here I know you by your ground But I know you not withinö There is silence, there survives Not a moment of your lives.

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  'Forefathers'.

We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope ofthe Resurrectionto eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

-Book of Common Prayer
Burial of the Dead, Committal.

The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage. See Kipling 473:53.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm16:7.

Resources left in the ground are saved, not lost.

-Brody, Hugh
Maps and Dreams: Indians and theBritish Columbia Frontier.

   Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsöLeonoraö Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime; So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme.

-Craik, Dinah Maria ne¤  e Mulock
Collected Poems,'Leonora'.

Alas, alas, who's injured by my love? What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned? Who says my tears have overflowed his ground? When did my colds a forward spring remove? When did the heats which my veins fill Add one more to the plaguey bill? Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Canonization', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.1024^5.

The tolling bell Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried Ground swell, a time Older than the time of chronometers.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.1.

If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).