Islands Quotes · Page 3

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?

— Eudora Welty

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

— Paul Simon

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

— Francis Daniels Moore

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

— David A. Siegel

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

— Anonymous

Englishmen must have an island.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

— William Dampier

From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.

— Pablo Neruda

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

— John Carmack

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

— Billy Joel

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

— Tim Vine

Britain's an island; it's always had a constant ebb and flow of immigration - it makes it a better place.

— John Lydon

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

— Mark Falcoff

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

— Peter Arnett

“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

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

— W. H. Auden

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

— Billy Connolly

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

— Father Damien

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something…

— Thomas Paine

You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be…

— Vladimir Putin

Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and…

— Ernest Bevin

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever…

— John Muir

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…

— Alan Lightman

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

— Clive Barker

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in…

— Michael Foley

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Tiziano Terzani

I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not?

— Eva Mendes

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

— Anonymous

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

— Laurie Anderson

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

— Foxy Brown

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

— Martin McGuinness

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.

— Don Rickles

I love the Lonely Island. I wish there was more Lonely Island movies.

— Judd Apatow

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

— Muhammad Yunus