Dry Land Quotes

• If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Success, Opportunity, Want

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• You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Sides, Action

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• Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

  Wallace Stegner

  Land, Water, Dry

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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 you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

  George Crabbe

  Hurt, Fear, Lying

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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. Life is a portage.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Land, Dry

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.376, Bantam

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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

  Swimming, Land, Water

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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 disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Land, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land -movie - Karate kid"What is the calculus of innovation?" "The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives our economic growth."

  William R. Brody

  Ambition, Kids, Simple

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• Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

  Laird Hamilton

  Exercise, Land, Challenges

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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, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Average, Sea

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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 to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Opportunity

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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 borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Land, Long

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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 knowledge based approach will bring immense returns particularly in Rainfed and Dryland farming areas.

  Pratibha Patil

  Rain, Way Forward, Land

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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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. . . . Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Fate, Destiny, Men

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• And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  War, Land, Cities

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo (2003). “The Conquest of New Spain”, p.234, Penguin UK

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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 makes us bury our dead.

  John Green

  Running, Fear, Land

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mother, Children, Mistake

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.2.

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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 land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.

  Alan Watts

  Faith, Letting Go, Hands

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.67, New World Library

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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. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

  Mavis Gallant

  Children, Believe, Writing

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books

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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 be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

  Dana Stabenow

  Nice, Cancer, Sea

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Dead in the Water”, p.10, Gere Donovan Press

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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 the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.323, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

  Karel Capek

  Ocean, Adventure, Land

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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 the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Science, Islands

  Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.1

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• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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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 was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

  Georges Cuvier

  Land, Dry, Body

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