Islands Quote by Anonymous

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in…

— Christopher Columbus

“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the…

— James Jones

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed…

— Jeremy Irons

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

— Rafael Sabatini

“The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be…

— J.M. Barrie

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong…

— Hugh Shelton

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

— Chester W. Nimitz

They were numerically outnumbered.

— Garry Birtles

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

— Bernard Baruch

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

— Charlaine Harris

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

— Rudyard Kipling

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

— Norton Juster