Islands Quotes · Page 6

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

— Cassandra Clare

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

— Charles Stross

“The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.”

— Jaida Jones

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

— Maggie Stiefvater

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

— Jason Statham

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

— Nicholas Lea

“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long…

— Lisel Mueller

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of…

— Wilfred Burchett

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

— Tim Lebbon

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball…

— Bill Veeck

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon…

— Margaret Atwood

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I…

— Steve Zahn

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play…

— Cecelia Ahern

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York,…

— Martin Filler

I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no…

— William Butler Yeats

Before September 11, we were fighting terrorism in our southwestern Philippines, and it was a lonely fight. However, we were able to…

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge,…

— Huston Smith

“Countless tales and songs had been written about the cliffs of Iro and Nane: they'd been painted by two lovers, one who…

— Sarah Beth Durst

Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a…

— Jay Mohr

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'

— Tom Hanks

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

— Yancy Butler

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

— Frederick Lenz

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

— Anonymous

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

— Ru Freeman

Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.

— Ban Ki-moon

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers…Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

— William Golding

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

— Warren G. Bennis

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Paul Cellucci

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

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