Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… — Cyril Connolly
The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it… — Enid Blyton
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island… — Rebecca Solnit
School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning… — Dee Snider
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, --… — William Wordsworth
I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery. — Ayrton Senna
For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with… — Tom Clancy
Dominance contests are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none. — L. David Mech
I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the… — Glenn Gould
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as… — Walter Weyl
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its… — Corey Ford
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change… — Amy Goodman
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. — Gloria Swanson
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly,… — Lewis Gordon
The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them. — Conor Cruise O'Brien
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities… — Michael D. Higgins
There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle… — Robert Cowley
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City,… — Mark Steyn
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Englishmen must have an island. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting… — Israel Zangwill
Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live and die on… — Juliana Hatfield
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists… — Primo Levi

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