Island Quotes · Page 8

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

— Napoleon Hill

El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.

— Beto O'Rourke

It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

— Sherwood Schwartz

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

— Melanie Martinez

In Singapore, I want to go to the water park on Sentosa Island.

— Peyton List

I'm an island girl, so I love super bronzy skin!

— Janet Mock

We're the most talented musical island ever.

— Richard Ashcroft

I liked Reykjavik as a city and though the island of Vestmannajyaer is completely different, I've fallen in love with the place.

— David James

I was living out of a hotel for weeks with nothing but a case full of Love Island' bikinis.

— Maura Higgins

For the millennium, we flew to Kuala Lumpur and then on to Pangkor Laut, a nearby island.

— Michael Ball

I guess I will always be known as a designer who references Ibiza, even though I've only been to the island a…

— Matthew Williamson

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

— Dave McCary

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.

— Julia Fox

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

— Albert Einstein

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

— Kerry Kennedy

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was…

— Alejo Carpentier

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black…

— Yance Ford

We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course,…

— W. H. Davies

I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach…

— Seth Shostak

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read…

— A. A. Milne

I started a business with my cousins in Fire Island called 'Wagoneers.' Since there are no cars on the island, we would…

— Reed Morano

As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom…

— Alice Dreger

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain…

— John Millington Synge

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

— Kevin Connolly

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

— Amy Schumer

We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.

— Prodigy

“Each man is an island unto itself" - Strangman”

— J.G. Ballard

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

— Wyclef Jean

“Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.”

— Liane Moriarty

I never turned down anything but 'Gilligan's Island.'

— Jerry Van Dyke

“She had a murderer to find, and an island to frighten.”

— Frances Hardinge

“There is an island where former versions of myself gallop around on all fours.”

— Chelsea Hodson

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

— Edward Heath

I know what Stone Island means to a lot of people in England and Europe.

— James Jebbia

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

— Roddy Doyle

I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

— Joseph Monninger

“were endemic to each island were also three distinct species.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

— Novalis

“There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous