Drowning on Dry Land may refer to:
- Drowning on Dry Land (play), a 2004 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn
- Drowning on Dry Land, a 1999 film directed by Carl Colpaert
- Drowning on Dry Land (Grey's Anatomy), an episode from Grey's Anatomy
- "Drowning on Dry Land/Fish Soup", a double single from Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Famous quotes containing the words drowning on, drowning, dry and/or land:
“Drowning one’s sorrows in drink only makes them worse.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;Mnevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Waters above! Eternal springs!
The dew that silvers the Dove’s wings!
O welcome, welcome to the sad:
Give dry dust drink, drink that makes glad!
Many fair ev’nings, many flow’rs
Sweetened with rich and gentle showers,
Have I enjoyed,”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
“That garret of the earth—that knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)