My Feet On The Ground Quotes

#1. I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then ... So then if you aren't, you think, "Have I done something wrong?"

Gustav Ejstes

#2. I've got my feet on the ground because I've got a lovely family waiting for me when I get home, even though they're not my flesh and blood. I haven't got children. That's my only regret, I suppose.

Bonnie Tyler

#3. My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

Valerie Trierweiler

#4. I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.

Joe Calzaghe

#5. I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

Alice Temperley

#6. My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

Rob James-Collier

#7. I spent a lot of time in the clouds. Becoming a mother has really helped me put my feet on the ground and given me a very powerful sense of self and a powerful sense of priority in life.

Evangeline Lilly

#8. I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

Charley Pride

#9. I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.

Nicole Kidman

#10. I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.

Rufus Sewell

#11. I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

Bo Belinsky

#13. Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

Rupert Grint

#14. I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.

Percy Sledge

#15. Nobody wants to say, "I'm trying to get my feet on the ground" when they're in their twenties. They want you to think they're about to do something dangerous, or exciting, or different. We're not "living at home," we're "crashing until we can afford a pad in Brooklyn.

Alida Nugent

#16. I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

Emma Watson

#17. I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

Jasper Carrott

#18. I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

Douglas Booth

#19. I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#20. Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

Faraaz Kazi

#21. You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

Renan Barao

#22. Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

Ferran Adria

#23. he'd wanted to do for years while we dated - the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can't really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#24. I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#25. I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

#26. Because on some basic, soul-deep level within me, he is the solid ground beneath my feet.

C.J. Redwine

#27. I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

Gareth Gates

#28. I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own feet and the feet of my readers on the ground so that no matter how high we dream our dreams will be based on reality

Jack London

#29. I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

Umar

#30. I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.

Derek Blasberg

#31. Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here.

Matt LeBlanc

#32. I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.

Kellan Lutz

#33. I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Jesse Owens

#34. I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

Natasha Henstridge

#35. Love has been buried forever under the leaves at my feet. I lie down on the ground and rest my head on my bag. The grass tickles my arms where I bend the stalks under my neck.
I want to sleep.

Shan Sa

#36. As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

Jack Osbourne

#37. Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.

Julia Glass

#38. My heart thrashes in time with my feet pounding across the cold, hard ground. I can't run any faster, longer, and yet I must. My life and my family's survival depends on it.

Elle A. Rose

#39. I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.

Paul Auster

#40. My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get an email where he tells me he's heading off on a mission to do terrain avoidance 50 feet above the ground at 500 knots. And I just say, "Okay, have a good flight."

Julie Payette

#41. I see hope creeping in, destabilizing old power structures. I feel it in the ground under my feet. I hear it in the stories of the people of God living right now. We're whispering to each other, eyes alight, "Aslan is on the move." Can't you feel that? The kingdom is breathing among us already.

Sarah Bessey

#42. When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'

Dean Winters

#43. Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Tamara Tunie

#44. I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.

Johanna Konta

#45. Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head's been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.

Neneh Cherry

#46. Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.

Rachel Hartman