Island Quotes

759 Island quotes by 605 unique authors

I'd be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I'd still love him ... but as a parent you just… — Debra Messing
What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because… — Danny Glover
I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the… — David Foreman
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me… — Barack Obama
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize — Hank Johnson
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island… — Ayn Rand
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out… — Winston Churchill
If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip. — George C. Scott
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh… — Marg Helgenberger
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9 — Josh Lucas
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. — Foxy Brown
I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire… — Jeremy Northam
Unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image… — Brigitte Bardot
Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. — Heather McDonald
I grew up on a tiny little island. — Samantha Barks
We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it… — Newt Gingrich
I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so… — Unknown Author
It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the… — Larry Mullen, Jr.
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Unknown Author
Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the… — Mercy Otis Warren
There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. — Thomas Paine
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from… — Ian Paisley
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest… — Mitt Romney
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of… — Thom Yorke

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