Dry Land Quotes
29 quotes by 25 authors
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If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave…
— John Bartholomew Gough
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
— Wallace Stegner
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If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
— Bruce Lee
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America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of…
— Louis Agassiz
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Our destiny and ultimate fate depend upon our daily decisions. . . .Tomorrow's joy or tomorrow's despair has its roots in decisions we make today.…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.…
— Mavis Gallant
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You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry…
— Alan Watts
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Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially…
— Henry David Thoreau
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At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to…
— Dana Stabenow
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The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land,…
— Karel Capek
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To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere,…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This…
— Pratibha Patil
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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them…
— Georges Cuvier
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Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.
— Laird Hamilton
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A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt…
— George Crabbe
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At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.…
— Tom Robbins
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This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us…
— John Green
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This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that…
— John Green
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Who Wrote These Dry Land Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 29 Dry Land Quotes as follows: