Islands Quotes · Page 8

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half…

— Judy Garland

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

— Martin McGuinness

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

— Foxy Brown

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

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Anonymous

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

— Jack Adams

It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka.

— Nicole Polizzi

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

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

— Naoto Kan

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the…

— Tim Bishop

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have…

— Marlena De Blasi

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes.…

— Leonard Sweet

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable…

— Eliot Engel

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the…

— Jack Adams

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas,…

— David Friedman

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the…

— Enric Sala

Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a…

— Paul Laffoley

From the peak of Chimborazo (volcano) to the Pacific coast, from the Amazon rainforest to the Galapagos Islands, may you never lose…

— Pope Francis

What happened to the alpha-wolf?" "LEGOs." "Legos?" It sounded Greek but I couldn't recall anything mythological with that name. Wasn't it an…

— Ilona Andrews

Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall…

— Neil Gaiman

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the…

— Josiah Strong

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly…

— Andrew Roberts

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat…

— Russell Lynes

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side…

— Woody Guthrie

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

— Peter Arnett

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

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

— Spike Lee

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

— Bill O'Reilly

The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

— Dave Ramsey

COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.

— Nellie Bly

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.

— Peter R. Grant

We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.

— Gavin MacLeod

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

— Narciso Rodriguez

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

— Gautama Buddha

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

— Gerald Durrell

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

— Wyndham Lewis

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

— Jimmy Carter

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

— Freeman Dyson