Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.… — Winston Churchill
There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications… — Carly Fiorina
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or… — Julian Huxley
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even… — Goswami Kriyananda
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
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. — Winston Churchill
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the… — Thomas More
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter… — Unknown Author
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller… — Enric Sala
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions… — Lilly Ledbetter
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in… — Heber Doust Curtis
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep — Cappadonna
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus
I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. — David A. Siegel
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long… — Carl Jung
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid… — Rajneesh
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations… — Unknown Author
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
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz
The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as… — Chester W. Nimitz
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in… — Jim Brown

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