Stomping Ground Quotes

#1. New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

Busta Rhymes

#2. For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground ... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

ASAP Rocky

#3. I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.

Mark Billingham

#4. I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

Eric Clapton

#5. A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of Earth, Mars was assumed to be chock-a-block with animate beings, and its putative inhabitants got a lot of column inches and screen time.

Seth Shostak

#6. When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect.

Diego Della Valle

#7. For the length of time it takes to write a book, you need to believe that you're the only writer in existence; the only one who matters. You need to shut yourself away and allow the creativity to build up, not leak out through worry and comparisons and doubt.

Martin Cosgrove

#8. What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. "'Thus the tree grows,'" he quoted, "'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people.

Greg Keyes

#10. A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

George Ade

#11. True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

Dillon Burroughs

#12. Because, man, if this city ain't Caleb's mountain, I don't know what is, and those giants out there are just stomping people into the ground.

Richard Price