Island Quotes · Page 7

“No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World”

— Gabrielle Zevin

I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island, right outside of Manhattan.

— Matthew Koma

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

— Kathy Griffin

Love Island' would be better if they had different kinds of people, 100%.

— Charlotte Crosby

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

— Chellie Pingree

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

— David A. Siegel

“When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours.”

— Antione de Saint-Exupery

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

— William Golding

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

— Cote de Pablo

Scratch below the surface, and you will find I am a patriotic little thing, desperately proud to be part of this island…

— Katie Hopkins

I worked at Goose Island Brewery, and I opened the one that was right by Wrigley Field, so I got to see…

— Shanola Hampton

“He’d been around the island for a while, and I’m sorry to say that being bashed around in Battle and at raids…

— Christina Henry

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

— J. C. Chandor

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.

— St. Vincent

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

— Harry Redknapp

Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and…

— John Petrucci

I have had experiences where the director has asked me to meet for a drink or to come party with him or…

— Shenaz Treasury

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I…

— Joanne Harris

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was…

— Vinny Guadagnino

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to…

— Peter Stuyvesant

Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was…

— Simon Mawer

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and…

— Michael Leunig

In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate…

— Albert Einstein

My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There,…

— Maneet Chauhan

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— Zhat

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

— Alcoholics Anonymous

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

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

— Roddy Doyle

No man is an island, especially not Jughead.

— Cole Sprouse

“No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

— Abe Fortas

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

— Mitch Kapor

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

— Henry Morton Stanley

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

— Chester W. Nimitz

I'm from New York. I was born in Long Island.

— Scott Storch

I grew up on lovely Staten Island, which is the forgotten borough of New York City.

— Craig Mazin

Melding Staten Island history with making beer has been a dream come true.

— Brian Quinn

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

— Paul Simon