Island Quotes

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Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've… — Gerry Adams
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. — Dave Barry
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the… — Aneurin Bevan
If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island… — Bono
It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower
Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So,… — Jimmy Buffett
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. — Nicolas Cage
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than… — David Cameron
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit… — Jane Campion
When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England. — Paul Cellucci
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall… — Winston Churchill
Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I… — Criss Angel
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary… — Francesca Annis
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast — Ronald Reagan
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in… — Benjamin Disraeli
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country… — Chester W. Nimitz
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The… — Adolf Hitler
A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just… — James F. Amos
I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco. — Don Maloney

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