Islands Quotes

No man is an island...

— Nick Hornby

I like islands.

— Dominic Monaghan

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

— Christopher Moore

Welcome to the island of misfit toys

— Stephen Chbosky

Id like to live in the Greek islands

— Paul Wesley

“One of those Caribbean islands.”

— J.T. Ellison

I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.

— Dule Hill

You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

— Jason Mraz

No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.

— Paulo Coelho

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

— Elbert Hubbard

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

— Jim George

The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

— Frans Lanting

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

— Elizabeth Olsen

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.

— Frederick Lenz

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

— Rudyard Kipling

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

— Elizabeth Pena

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't…

— Robert Breault

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all…

— William Wordsworth

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a…

— Nathaniel Branden

There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed…

— Robert Cowley

On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime…

— Craig Kilborn

It has nothing to do with any kind of exchange or sale [of Kuril island to Japan]. It is about the search…

— Vladimir Putin

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies,…

— Winston Churchill

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going…

— Mike Love

“The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up…

— James A. Michener

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you,…

— RZA

At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South…

— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their…

— David Mitchell

You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from…

— Sloane Crosley

“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it,…

— Andrew Rayner

find your eternity in each moment

— Henry David Thoreau

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

— Dolly Parton

“The Philippines is made up of 7,100 islands.”

— Jenny Kellett

Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.

— Albert Einstein

No man is an island unto himself.

— John Donne

“…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”

— John Wyndham