Famous quotes containing the word grounded:
“I am at the ship’s prow.
I am no longer the suicide
with her raft and paddle.
Herr Doktor! I’ll no longer die
to spite you, you wallowing
seasick grounded man.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress.”
—Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994)
“[The Settlement House] must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)