"Water is the true wealth in a dry…" — Wallace Stegner

"Water is the true wealth in a dry land."

— Wallace Stegner

Dry Quotes Dry Land Quotes Land Quotes True Quotes True Wealth Quotes Water Quotes Wealth Quotes

108 Quotes by Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner has 108 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to…
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our…
Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be…
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such…
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you…
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all…
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some…
This early piece of the morning is mine.
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

See all 108 quotes by Wallace Stegner »

More Dry Quotes

This quote is filed under Dry Quotes, one of 1,049 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty… — Ansel Adams
If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make… — Mario Batali
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley
I have never left another senator out to dry. Never. — Joe Biden
I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you… — Mel Brooks
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that… — Alton Brown
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry… — Robert Browning
It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own… — Kobe Bryant
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never… — Pearl S. Buck
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of… — Warren Buffett
When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought… — Gisele Bundchen
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of… — Bliss Carman

See all 1,049 Dry Quotes »