Islands Quotes · Page 11

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

— Roddy Doyle

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

— Paul Theroux

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very…

— Bob Hope

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

— Hilary Mantel

“You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own…

— V.T. Davy

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

— Herodotus

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

— Ayrton Senna

I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my…

— Father Damien

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of…

— Frederick Lenz

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces…

— Gina Gershon

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes…

— Billy Connolly

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

— W. H. Auden

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me…

— Henry David Thoreau

“No man is an island,” he says. “Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don’t know any people made…

— Andrew Shaffer

We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters…

— Jerry Seinfeld

By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of…

— Henry David Thoreau

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his…

— Neal Shusterman

I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations.…

— David Cameron

Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off…

— Mao Zedong

Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment.…

— Laurel Nakadate

I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the…

— Tiziano Terzani

The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in…

— David Attenborough

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is…

— Steven Chu

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

— Neil Gaiman

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

— James Theodore Bent

204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas and yet I can't find a decent relationship.

— Anonymous

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

— Paul McCartney

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

— Syesha Mercado

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

— Simon Cowell

That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.

— Kathy Griffin

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

— Johnny Carson

My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

— Cameron Mackintosh

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

— Mason Cooley

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

— William Golding

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

— Gina Gershon

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

— Maggie Stiefvater

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

— Richard Francis Burton