There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.

-Reed, Henry
  Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.

Jogging isvery beneficial.It'sverygood for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

-Schulz, Charles Monroe
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I've already had medical attentionöa dog licked me when I was on the ground.

-1st Viscount
  OnlyWhen I Laugh.

The ground is like a beautiful woman. If you treat her gently, she'll tell you all her secrets.

-Snow, Clyde Collins
On exploring the massacre of thousands of Mayan Indians in Guatemala in the early1980s. In theWashington Post,18 Dec.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

-Stevenson, Adlai E(wing)
Recalled on his death,14 Jul1965.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Gulliver'sTravels,'A Voyage to Brobdingnag', ch.7.

The woods decay, the woods decayand fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after manya summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

-Tennyson
  'Tithonus' (revised1864),1.1^7.

As for style of writingöif one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Letter to Daniel Ricketson,18 Aug.

If I laugh on that particular day I become so filled with Laughing Gas that I simply can't keep on the ground. Even if I smile it happens.The first funny thought, and I'm up like a balloon. And until I can thinkof something serious I can't get down again.

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  MrWigg, Mary Poppins's uncle.The'particular day' is when his birthday falls on a Friday. Mary Poppins, ch.3.

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

-Wordsworth,William
  'To a Skylark', l.1^4 (published1827).