Island Quotes
759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors
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I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we…
— Antony Gormley
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Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of…
— Chip Conley
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Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing…
— Paul Merton
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I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a…
— James Blunt
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was…
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
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Rick Owens is my desert island designer. I could live in his clothes alone, and I collect Ossie Clark.
— Mia Sara
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My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
— Cara Delevingne
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The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can…
— Buzz Aldrin
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An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
— Paul Theroux
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As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all…
— Alice Dreger
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If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something…
— Gracie Gold
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If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable,…
— Catherine Martin
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do…
— Eddie Trunk
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My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to have…
— Aerin Lauder
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My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
— Idina Menzel
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We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich.…
— Michelle Gagnon
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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the…
— Marissa Jaret Winokur
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
— Brendan I. Koerner
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Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you…
— Simon Mawer
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I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was…
— Nelson Mandela
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I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.
— Chellie Pingree
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El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.
— Beto O'Rourke
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I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though…
— Jonathan Evison
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The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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