Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many… — Khalil Gibran
I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you… — Richard Sherman
And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures. — Ellen Page
I never watched 'Harper's Island.' — Dave Foley
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb.… — Cat Cora
I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am… — Father Damien
Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and… — Charles Darwin
Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it — Ban Ki-moon
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the… — E. Urner Goodman
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast… — Joanna Newsom
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of… — Mao Zedong
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to… — Louis Leakey
Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New… — Alfred Kazin
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities… — Frances Trollope
Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world — Jimmy Carter
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a… — John Millington Synge
If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the… — Daniela Pestova
In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves. — James Theodore Bent
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. — James Theodore Bent
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go… — Andrea Hirata
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat… — William Bell
Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind. — Bob Denver
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. — Raymond Sokolov
And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about!… — Kerry Greenwood
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… — Virginia Woolf

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