Islands Quotes · Page 10

Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.

— Theo Rossi

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.

— Paul Cellucci

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

— Thomas Paine

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

— Donald L. Carcieri

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

— Patrick McGoohan

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

— Dylan Moran

Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live…

— Juliana Hatfield

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep,…

— Rick Riordan

We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it…

— Holland Smith

Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead…

— Anonymous

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable.…

— Ian Schrager

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of…

— James F. Cooper

The island of the tonal, the way we see life, is there so we can get through our life. It was never…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Tiziano Terzani

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

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

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax…

— Eric Burdon

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either…

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Steven Chu

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does…

— Shimon Peres

We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these,…

— Clive Barker

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

— Stella Benson

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

— Nelson Mandela

I rented an island for Kanye West birthday. A far, far away place where no one can find us.

— Kim Kardashian

You cannot sail for other islands until you are willing to lose sight of your own shore.

— Anonymous

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to…

— Edie Falco

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

— John W. Gardner

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

— Herodotus

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

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

— Ayrton Senna

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

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Anonymous

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

— James Theodore Bent

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

— Simon Cowell

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