Best 15 quotes in «down to earth quotes» category

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most "DOWN-TO-EARTH" man in the world. But I'm one of them.

Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant they are.

I am thankful for the fallen coins, otherwise, being down to earth is so difficult these days.

The feet bound by leather souls feel not the humbleness of the sod. They carry the person without knowing the terrain below upon which they frequent trod.

One of the powers that love has, is to grow wings in the mind of a pedestrian, though sometimes you just need to walk and stay on your feet.

The cane is just not going to cut it. I shared with some of my colleagues that these brothers live in neighborhoods where they are getting whapped with a piece of stick all night, stabbed with knives, and pegged with screwdrivers that have been sharpened down, and they are leaking blood. When you come to a fella without even interviewing him, without sitting him down to find out why you did what you did, your only interest is caning him, because you are burned out and frustrated yourself. You say to him, ‘Bend over, you are getting six.’ And the boy grits his teeth, skin up his face, takes those six cuts, and he is gone. But have you really been effective? Caning him is no big deal, because he’s probably ducking bullets at night. He has a lot more things on his mind than that. On the other hand, we can further send our delinquent students into damnation by telling them they are no body and all we want to do is punish, punish, punish. Here at R.M. Bailey, we have been trying a lot of different things. But at the end of the day, nothing that we do is better than the voice itself. Nothing is better than talking to the child, listening, developing trust, developing a friendship. Feel free to come to me anytime if something is bothering you, because I was your age once before. Charles chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of the R. M. Bailey Pacers school.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

Three-letter word that kills you for sure - Ego.

the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.

You can live in another world but you have to understand the rules of this one.

I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.