Dry Land Quotes

29 quotes by 25 authors

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
Water is the true wealth in a dry land. — Wallace Stegner
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land. — Laird Hamilton
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
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
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
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
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: