Islands Quotes

778 Islands quotes by 627 unique authors

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
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and… — James Dwight Dana
Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target.… — Nils-Axel Morner
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
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on… — Jack Adams
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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