#ground

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#child #clear #comes #daughter #decided

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#christ #color #coming #considerable #considerable number

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#future #ground #hierarchy #now #obligation

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground. ↗

— Martin Gore

#darkness #i #like #their #underground

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again. ↗

— Oliver North

#again #back #back up #commander #company

My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#air #air force #crew #dad #direct

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. ↗

— Michael Novak

#atheists #civil #civil society #conscience #consciences

When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#ease #ground #husband #i #me

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#fame #ground #hollow #kind #rest

Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it? ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#america #ask #attack #backgrounds #distort