A Quote by Ivan Turgenev

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Ivan Turgenev

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Mud Reach Reach For The Stars Sit Stars

Quote Author

Ivan Turgenev
Russian - Novelist
October 28, 1818 - September 3, 1883

Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Leo Burnett

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

R. A. Salvatore

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Benjamin E. Mays

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

Sylvia Earle

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

Vera Nazarian

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

Jane Swisshelm

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

Martin Buber

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.

R. A. Salvatore

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Annie Dillard

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.